Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes
Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.
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.
Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.
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.
Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.
Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating
The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.
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.
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.
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.
Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable
Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.
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.
The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.
The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.
You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.
The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.
The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.
Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.
L'alcool est le monarque des liquides, et porte au dernier degre l'exaltation palatale. Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation.
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.
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.
In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.
Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.
When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.
Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.
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.
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."
For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'
To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.
Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.
The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!