Brillat-Savarin

[ bree-ya-sa-va-ran ]

/ bri ya sa vaˈrɛ̃ /

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noun

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
Thwicket had left two minutes before, having learned that Gallivant was at the Savarin.
Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York|Lemuel Ely Quigg
Baron Savarin, who wrote a treatise on the art of enjoying life, should have added a chapter on the happiness of contrast.
With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2|Various
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

British Dictionary definitions for Brillat-Savarin

Brillat-Savarin

/ (French brijasavarɛ̃) /

noun

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

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