Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes
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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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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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The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.
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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 dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.
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Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.
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The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.
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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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Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.
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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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Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable
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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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Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.
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Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.
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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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Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.
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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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Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.
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Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.
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In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.
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Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.
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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.
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The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
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Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.