Brillat-Savarin
Americannoun
noun
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The decadent Brillat-Savarin, a triple-cream delight, embodies the vibrant foraging of goats, while Spring Cheddar — made from the milk of cows that have grazed spring pastures — is subtly sweet and lightly herbaceous.
From Salon • Oct. 3, 2024
That novel features one of the most indelible characters in culinary fiction, a gourmand whom the author Marcel Rouff loosely based on the French culinary writer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, born in 1755.
From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024
As French epicure Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin famously put it, “Tell me what you eat: I will tell you what you are.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2022
From the 19th-century French gourmand Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Cantu took the idea that just as food sustains our physical existence, taste sustains our psychological existence.
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2018
He flung words of scorn at Lucullus and piled invectives upon Brillat-Savarin.
From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
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