At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinYou first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinIn the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin'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-Savarin