A 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-SavarinThe truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinIf one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinPoultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinThe sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
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-SavarinSome dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when presented with such a dish, show neither the rush of desire, nor the radiance of ecstasy, may justly be deemed unworthy of the honors of the sitting, and its related delights.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin