'Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever you want to have a really good cup of chocolate, make it the day before, in a porcelain coffeepot, and let it set. The night's rest will concentrate it and give it a velvety quality which will make it better. Our good God cannot possibly take offense at this little refinement, since he himself is everything that is most perfect.'
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinThose persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinOnce fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinTruffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinVegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin