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Famous Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes
“The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.”
“Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.”
“All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.”
“I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.”
“The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.”
“The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.”
“Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating”
“In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.”
“Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.”
“Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.”
“Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.”
“Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.”
“The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.”
“The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.”
“No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.”
“I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.”
“The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.”
“The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.”
“The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.”
“The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.”