The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin More Quotes by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin More Quotes From Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin substance suffering loss Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin degrees pleasure alcohol In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin cooking food hands When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin tongue fate needs Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin tired feel-better wine All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin passion strong men Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin prerogative gluttony mankind Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin eggs food giving Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes! Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin food father children La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin cuisine kitchen fowl La de couverte d'un mets nouveau fait plus pour le bonheur du genre humain que la de couverte d'une e toile. The discoveryof a newdish doesmore for thehappiness of mankind than the discovery of a star. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin genre stars discovery When you have breakfasted well and fully, if you will drink a big cup of chocolate at the end you will have digested the whole perfectly three hours later, and you will still be able to dine. Because of my scientific enthusiasm and the sheer force of my eloquence I have persuaded a number of ladies to try this, although they were convinced it would kill them; they have always found themselves in fine shape indeed, and have not forgotten to give the Professor his rightful due. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin chocolate numbers giving Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin which us flavor taste
