Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes

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

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

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

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.

A meal without wine is like a day without sun

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

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

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.

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.

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.

It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.

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

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."

Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted.

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

The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.

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

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

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

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

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.