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The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
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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Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.
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Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.
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To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.
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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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I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.
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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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Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.
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