Brillat-Savarin

[ bree-ya-sa-va-ran ]

noun
  1. Anthelme [ahn-telm], /ɑ̃ˈtɛlm/, 1755–1826, French jurist, writer, and gastronome.

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How to use Brillat-Savarin in a sentence

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

    More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri Fabre
  • These are little gastronomic felicities which Brillat-Savarin, otherwise so complete an author, overlooked in his book.

    The Red Inn | Honore de Balzac
  • Dumas' soup for dinner; but for breakfast the unrivalled omelette of Brillat-Savarin.

    The Feasts of Autolycus | Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • Brillat Savarin recounts a rather cruel joke perpetrated 33 on a man who was a well-known gourmand.

    The Art of Entertaining | M. E. W. Sherwood
  • Brillat Savarin says of coffee, "It is beyond doubt that coffee acts upon the functions of the brain as an excitant."

    The Art of Entertaining | M. E. W. Sherwood

British Dictionary definitions for Brillat-Savarin

Brillat-Savarin

/ (French brijasavarɛ̃) /


noun
  1. Anthelme (ɑ̃tɛlm). 1755–1826, French lawyer and gourmet; author of Physiologie du Goût (1825)

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