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

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Doctors, Harmony, Sensible

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.52, Editorial MAXTOR

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• Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves like travelers due to reach their destination together.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Progress, Together, Meals

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• In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Vegetables, Bread, Imagine

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• Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Sleep, Exercise, Essentials

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• 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

  Loss, Suffering, Substance

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.74, Vintage

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

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Ideas, Degrees, Limits

  "The Physiology of Taste".

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• Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Alcohol, Liquid, Monarchs

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.120, Lulu.com

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

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  Tables, Firsts, Hours

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• An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  World, Summing Up, Whole

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.63, Vintage

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

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Appreciation, Vegetables, Appreciate

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• Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Inspirational, Food, Cooking

  "The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy".

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• Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Cooking, Taste

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• Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when presented with such a dish, show neither the rush of desire, nor the radiance of ecstasy, may justly be deemed unworthy of the honors of the sitting, and its related delights.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Honor, Excellence

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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.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Men, Air

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.121, Vintage

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• 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

  Fate, Needs, Tongue

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.42, Editorial MAXTOR

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• 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

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.67, Editorial MAXTOR

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• Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Fire, Discovery

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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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  Beautiful, Laughter, Food

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• Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Hands, Choices, Pretty Woman

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2012). “The Physiology of Taste: Or, Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.75, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• 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.

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  Stars, Discovery, Genre

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• 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.

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  Tired, Wine, Feel Better

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• I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Wine, Pills, Dessert

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.373, Lulu.com

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• L'alcool est le monarque des liquides, et porte au dernier degre l'exaltation palatale. Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation.

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  Alcohol, Exaltation, Liquid

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• 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.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Children, Pain, Coffee

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• The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Chocolate, Church, Each Day

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.119, Vintage

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