Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes

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• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Horse, Food

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• Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Silly, Food, Wine

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• The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Fate, Way, Depends

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• To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Long, People, Responsible

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.16, Vintage

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• The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Country, Food, Loss

  Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2004). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.18, Penguin UK

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• The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Happiness, Stars, Food

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.26, Editorial MAXTOR

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• A meal without wine is like a day without sun

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Wine, Alcohol, Sun

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• Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Eye, Cheesy, Cheese

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• The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Destiny, Depends, Nations

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.15, Vintage

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• Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Inspirational, Wise, Art

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.15, Vintage

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• The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Country, Age, Departure

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.25, Editorial MAXTOR

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• To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Waiting, Firsts, Wells

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• He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Giving, Meals

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• Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Art, Food, Cooking

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• It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Coffee, People, Chocolate

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.120, Vintage

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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.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Long, Drunk, Chocolate

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• Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Smell, Noses

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2012). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Universe

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.15, Vintage

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• The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Guests, Punctuality, Said

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Leonard Francis Simpson (1859). “The handbook of dining, based chiefly upon the Physiologie du goût of Brillat-Savarin”, p.7

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• A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Drinking, Food, Wine

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.373, Lulu.com

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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.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Men, Cooking

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2012). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when presented with such a dish, show neither the rush of desire, nor the radiance of ecstasy, may justly be deemed unworthy of the honors of the sitting, and its related delights.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Honor, Excellence

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• The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Tables, Firsts, Hours

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• You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Race, Turkeys

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• Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Ideas, Erotic

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