Quotes from Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

La destinée des nations dépend de la manière dont elles se nourrissent.

Les animaux se repaissent; l'homme mange; l'homme d'esprit seul sait manger.

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

Dis-moi ce que to manges, je te dirai ce que tu es -- (Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are)

that the table established a kind of alliance between the parties, and made guests more apt to receive certain impressions and submit to certain influences. This was the origin of political gastronomy. Entertainments have become governmental measures, and the fate of nations is decided on in a banquet. This is neither a paradox nor a novelty but a simple observation

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

God has subjected man to six great necessities: birth, action, eating, sleep, reproduction and death.

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.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

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 or translate me. Such is my fate.

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

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

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

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

Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.