Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first.… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
La truffe n'est point un aphrodisiaque positif; mais elle peut, en certaines occasions, rendre les femmes plus tendres et les hommes plus… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share
Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share
Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share
Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share
Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share
In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share
Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share
An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share
To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share
The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share
If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share
The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share
