Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes

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

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman who is missing one eye.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
He who receives his friends, and takes no personal care in preparing the meal that is designed for them, is not deserving of friends.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
To invite a guest is to take the responsibility of his happiness during his stay under our roof.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Animals feed, men eat; but only men of intelligence know how to eat.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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 be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?"

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

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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 repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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 and our banquets.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

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
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
The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

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 themselves like travelers due to reach their destination together.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The destiny of nations depends upon the manner in which they feed themselves.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The Creator, in obliging man to eat, invites him by appetite, and rewards him with pleasure.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a new star.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Animals feed themselves, men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Cooking is the most ancient of the arts, for Adam was born hungry.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Your true amateur sips his wine; as he lingers over each separate mouthful, he obtains from each the sum total of pleasure which he would have experienced had he emptied his glass at a single draught.

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 dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Alcohol is the prince of liquids and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin