Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
People note French politician and gourmet Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, for his
Physiologie du Goût
(1825), a witty dissertation on the art of dining.
This lawyer gained fame as an epicure and gastronome. The Rhone River then separated France from Savoy at his hometown in a family of lawyers. He studied law, chemistry and medicine in Dijon in his early years and thereafter practiced in his hometown. In 1789, at the opening of the revolution, people sent him as a deputy to the Estates-General, quickly the national constituent assembly, and he acquired some limited fame, particularly for a public speech in defense of capital punishment. He adopted his second surname upon the death of an aunt, who, named Savarin, left him her entire fortune on the condition that he adopt her name.
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“Bad sleepers! This is a new insult, and I intend to take out a patent for it, being the first to have discovered that it is an excommunication in itself.”
“„De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum.”
“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.”
“To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.”
“Burgundy makes you think of silly things, Bordeaux makes you talk of them and Champagne makes you do them.”
“The host took care to produce one or another of these whenever the current subjects seemed about used up, so that the conversation gathered new life and at the same time steered clear of political arguments, which are hindersome to both ingestion and digestion.”
“Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye”
“The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.”
“Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted.”
“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.”
“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.”