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• It is also of all arts the one which has done the most to advance the cause of civilization.

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• Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation.

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• The truffle is not a true aphrodisiac; but in certain circumstances it can make women more affectionate and men more attentive.

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• Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.

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• The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.

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

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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.

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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.

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• Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

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• Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

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• The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

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• The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

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• The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

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• The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

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• The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

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

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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.

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• The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

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• The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

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• Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

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Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin (27)

Birth:	1st April, 1755
Death:	2nd February, 1826
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Author, Lawyer, Politician

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Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin was born in Belley, France. He was a French lawyer, politician and author. He studied law, chemistry and medicine in Dijon in his early years and later practiced law in his hometown. In 1789, at the opening of the French Revolution, he was sent as a deputy to the Estates-General that soon became the National Constituent Assembly, where he acquired some limited fame, particularly for a public speech in defense of capital punishment. He returned to Belley and was for a year the elected mayor. He published several works on law and political economy. He wrote several books include: The Pleasures of the Table, Gastronomy as a fine art, The Physyology of Taste, The philosopher in the kitchen, and A Handbook of Gastronomy.

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