“In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.”
Source: A Handbook of Gastronomy
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Famous Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes
“Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.”
Source: The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
Source: The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
“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.”
Source: The Physiology of Taste
“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.”