About Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin:
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was a French lawyer and politician, and gained fame as an epicure and gastronome: "Grimod and Brillat-Savarin. Between them, two writers effectively founded the whole genre of the gastronomic essay."
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinI am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinThe senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinTaste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinHearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinThe German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinThe sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinThe number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinThe sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin