Taste Quotes by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

8 Taste quotes by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Brillat‑Savarin’s famous aphorisms on taste condense a lifetime of culinary philosophy into bite‑size wisdom. Even in a short list, his playful yet profound observations still flavor any conversation about food and pleasure.

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Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.

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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,…

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“1: There are at least six of them: Sight, which embraces space itself, and tells us by means of light of the…

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Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

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Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

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Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

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The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

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I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

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Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

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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…

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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…

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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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Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste.

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An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.

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To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines…

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The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all…

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