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1. "Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye" ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
2. "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." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
3. "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." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
4. "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
5. "Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
6. "„De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
7. "The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
8. "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
9. "Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
10. "Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
11. "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
12. "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
13. "All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
14. "Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
15. "The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
16. "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." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
17. "All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
18. "The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
19. "The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
20. "I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
21. "Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
22. "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." ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin

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