The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin More Quotes by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin More Quotes From Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 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-Savarin cheer food country Those 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 stars eye food For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?' Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin smell noses food If 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-Savarin lunch coffee chocolate 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-Savarin next gentleman food I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin strong food believe Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin different sight men The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin coffee wine discovery I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin scales remarkable sight I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin mania Vegetables, 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 different vegetables roots The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin pain men firsts All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin aggravation birth language No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin gourmet food men Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin judgment quality taste Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin salad cooking food The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin unseen race perfection The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin organs exterior men The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin faithful smell character The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin smell substance