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Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin Inspirational Quotes (51)

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Burgundy makes you think of silly things Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.
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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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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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All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.
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At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. Will you accept a slice? the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him you see it has come from the right factory.It is really very large, said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance What a pity it is unlike anything.
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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.
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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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Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.
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Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.
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The sense of smell explores deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
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Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.
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The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
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The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
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The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.
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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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In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.
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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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Animals feed themselves men eat but only wise men know the art of eating
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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.
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The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.
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Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
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To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.
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In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.
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I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets.
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