Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

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

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

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

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin