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Food Quotes by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable
- 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…
- Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus…
- The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our…
- At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at…
- Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals…
- No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.
- I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders…
- At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?"…
- A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would…
- Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries…
- Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas....
- Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts…
- Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
- The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
- 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…
- You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
- He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.
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