Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.
Interpretation
Gourmandise refers to a deep, rational love for food and taste experiences.
This quote by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin reflects on the concept of 'gourmandise', which signifies more than just a love for food; it underscores a profound appreciation for flavors that are both logical and instinctual. It encompasses not only the act of eating but also the joy and sensory pleasure derived from exquisite culinary experiences, portraying gastronomy as a significant aspect of human existence.
In practice
During a dinner party, one might say this quote to celebrate the joy of fine dining.
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?
I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.
My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.
Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide.
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.
You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.
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