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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.


— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


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Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye


— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


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Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.


— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.


— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


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All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.


— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


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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


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The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.


— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


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I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.


— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


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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


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Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.


— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


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About Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin






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Between them two writers effectively founded the whole genre of the gastronomic essay. For the cheese from Normandy see Brillat-Savarin cheese
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1 April 1755 Belley Ain – 2 February 1826 Paris) was a French lawyer and politician and gained fame as an epicure and gastronome: "Grimod and Brillat-Savarin.

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