Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes
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Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.
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All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
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Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.
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Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!
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The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.
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The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
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The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
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Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.
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Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves like travelers due to reach their destination together.
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If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.
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Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted.
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The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
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The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.
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Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.
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The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.
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Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.
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To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.
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Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable
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Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.
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Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.
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I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.
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In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.
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Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.
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Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.