111 Quotes by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste.

It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.

The limits of pleasures are as yet neither known nor fixed, and we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.

The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.