The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
Interpretation
The joy brought by food is greater than that from celestial discoveries.
Brillat-Savarin's quote suggests that the pleasure and happiness derived from culinary experiences have a more profound impact on humanity than scientific discoveries like new stars. It highlights the essential role of food in our lives and the joy it brings, asserting that our daily experiences, such as enjoying a good meal, are deeply significant and contribute immensely to human happiness.
In practice
Use this quote during a culinary event to emphasize the joy of cooking.
It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.
The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.
Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you.
Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.
In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.
You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
And as I walk round the park I always think, 'Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.' I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic.
I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh turns into a cackle. And I sit here, and smoke my Camel straights, and I ride my own melt.
It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.
I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention.
Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims - it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can't get.
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