Culinary Quote by 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 by the…

— 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 little more…

— 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 would be…

— 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 of cold…

— 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 of wines…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin