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From Quotes by 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 at his desk…
- I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired…
- Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.
- Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
- 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?"…
- 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…
- When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand…
- Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.
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