Quotes from 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.

The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

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."

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.