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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1755
Born: April 1
Died: 1826
Died: February 2
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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 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.
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La truffe n'est point un aphrodisiaque positif mais elle peut, en certaines occasions, rendre les femmes plus tendres et les hommes plus aimables. The truffle is not a true aphrodisiac but in certain circumstances it can make women more affectionate and men more attentive.
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The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
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In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.
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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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Burgundy makes you think of silly things Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.
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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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Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.
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The sense of smell explores deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
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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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Animals feed themselves men eat but only wise men know the art of eating
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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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