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I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.
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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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.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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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In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.
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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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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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Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye
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Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is their drawing room and the sun their lamp. Besides, they have appetite, Nature's special gift, which lends to such a meal a vivacity unknown indoors, however beautiful the surroundings.
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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.
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The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
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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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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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Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.
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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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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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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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The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.
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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.
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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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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
