At 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-SavarinA connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?"
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinIt is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinGourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin