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Pleasures of the Table Quotes

"The pleasures of the table belong to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries and to every day; they can be associated with all the other pleasures and remain the last to console us for the loss of the rest."
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826)

"Those who have a profound indifference to the pleasures of the table are generally gloomy, charmless and unamiable."
Lucien Tendret (1825-1896) French lawyer and gastronome; great-nephew of Brillat-Savarin.

"The pleasures of the table are of all times and all ages, of every country and of every day."
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826)

“A married couple who enjoy the pleasures of the table have, at least once a day, a pleasant oppurtunity to be together; for even those who do not sleep in the same bed (and there are may such) at least eat at the same table.”
Jean-Antheleme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826)
‘The Physiology of Taste’ (1825)