Brillat-Savarin

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

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

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

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

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