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.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinThe German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinAt the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at a dinner where there was not a piรจce truffรฉe? Who has not felt his mouth water in hearing truffles a la provencale spoken of? In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinThose truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin