“charming to behold, pleasing to smell, and delicious to taste”
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was a French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of Physiologie du goût, became celebrated for his culinary reminiscences and reflections on the craft and science of cookery and the art of eating.
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culture · French lawyer, politician and culinary writer · lawyer · politician · writer · judge · jurist · musician · also Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Brillat-Savarin
Born 1 April 1755 · Died 2 February 1826 · Q313027
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MutualArt.com: Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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1970· 1 entry
Under the title The Philosopher in the Kitchen; this version was reissued with a new title, The Pleasures of the Table, in 2011
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1926· 1 entry
At the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris and the Savoy Hotel in London
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1892· 1 entry
Lucien Tendret, one of his successors as mayor of Belley and one of the founders of L'Académie des Gastronomes, related a story of Brillat-Savarin's playing:
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1865· 1 entry
As Physiologie des Geschmacks oder physiologische Anleitung zum Studium der Tafelgenüsse (Physiology of taste or physiological guidance for the study of pleasures of the table)
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1854· 1 entry
Under the title The Physiology of Taste: Or, Transcendental Gastronomy
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1826· 5 entries
Died 1826-02-02.
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“Dites-moi ce que vous mangez, je vous dirai qui vous êtes.”
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“Diga-me o que comes e direi quem és.”
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“La découverte d'un mets nouveau fait plus pour le bonheur du genre humain que la découverte d'une étoile.”
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The work established him alongside Grimod de La Reynière as one of the founders of the genre of the gastronomic essay
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1804· 1 entry
And in 1808 Napoleon made him a Chevalier de l'Empire
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1802· 1 entry
“Economie Politique (Political Economy: Plans and Prospects) (1802), Fragments d”
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1755· 1 entry
Born 1755-04-01.
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