Brillat-Savarin

[ bree-ya-sa-va-ran ]

noun

1. Anthelme [ah, n, -, telm], 1755–1826, French jurist, writer, and gastronome.

Brillat-Savarin

/ brijasavarɛ̃ /

noun

1. Brillat-SavarinAnthelme17551826MFrenchPOLITICS: politicianCOOKERY: gourmet Anthelme (ɑ̃tɛlm). 1755–1826, French lawyer and gourmet; author of Physiologie du Goût (1825)

Example Sentences

The discovery of a new dish, said Brillat-Savarin, is of greater importance to humanity than the discovery of a new planet.

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These are little gastronomic felicities which Brillat-Savarin, otherwise so complete an author, overlooked in his book.

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Dumas' soup for dinner; but for breakfast the unrivalled omelette of Brillat-Savarin.

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Brillat Savarin recounts a rather cruel joke perpetrated 33 on a man who was a well-known gourmand.

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Brillat Savarin says of coffee, "It is beyond doubt that coffee acts upon the functions of the brain as an excitant."

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