French - Lawyer | April 1, 1755 - February 2, 1826
Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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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.
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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
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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.
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Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.
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The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
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All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.
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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.
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All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
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I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.
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The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.
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Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.
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