Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

A meal without wine is like a day without sun

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.”

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

— 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

If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will…

— 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

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors,…

— 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

Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

L'alcool est le monarque des liquides, et porte au dernier degre l'exaltation palatale. Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not…

— 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

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

Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

'Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

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

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“„De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum.”

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin