Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes About Cooking
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You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
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Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
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Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.
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'Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever you want to have a really good cup of chocolate, make it the day before, in a porcelain coffeepot, and let it set. The night's rest will concentrate it and give it a velvety quality which will make it better. Our good God cannot possibly take offense at this little refinement, since he himself is everything that is most perfect.'
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Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!
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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
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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.
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Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.
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The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.
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Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.
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In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.
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Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is their drawing room and the sun their lamp. Besides, they have appetite, Nature's special gift, which lends to such a meal a vivacity unknown indoors, however beautiful the surroundings.
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Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.
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Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.
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If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.
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Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- Born: April 1, 1755
- Died: February 2, 1826
- Occupation: Writer
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