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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
French lawyer, politician and culinary writer
This article is about the gastronome. For the cheese from Burgundy, see Brillat-Savarin cheese.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin | |
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Posthumous portrait, | |
| Born | 2 April Belley, France |
| Died | 2 February () (aged70) Paris, France |
| Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
| Notable works | Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste) |
"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are."
Aphorism IV, Physiologie du goût[1]
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃ɑ̃tɛlmbʁijasavaʁɛ̃]; 2 April – 2 February ) was a French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste), became celebrated for his culinary reminiscences and reflections on the craft and science of cookery and the art of eating.
Rising to modest eminence in the last years of France's Ancien Régime, Brillat-Savarin had to escape into exile when the Reign of Terror began in He spent nearly three years in the United States, teaching French and playing the violin to support himself, before returning to France when it became safe to do so, resuming his career as a lawyer, and rising to the top of the French judiciary.
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The Physiology of Taste
M.F.K. Fisher's translation of Brillat-Savarin's masterpiece, originally published in , is a true marriage of minds and sensibilities, a classic against which all subsequent gastronomical writing must be measured. Published in after some three decades of consuming research, The Physiology of Taste is the most famous book ever written about food. Witty and elegant, it is a classic in the grandest sense. Brillat-Savarin set out to write about food and cookery, but his interests and enthusiasms ranged so widely over matters of the human spirit that they could hardly be contained, and his work-here in its greatest translation-sits on the shelf of masterpieces of world literature. Its treasures include: observations on feasting and fasting and on the advantages of gourmandism, including its influence on marital happiness discou