The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the uniqueness of flavors and experiences in food and life.
Brillat-Savarin highlights the idea that each ingredient contributes its own distinct flavor, and this variety is limitless. This reflects a deeper appreciation for the diversity found in culinary arts, suggesting that just as each flavor is unique, so are our individual experiences and perceptions in life.
In practice
A chef might use this quote to inspire creativity in their kitchen.
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?
The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead.
If they say they don't like the way I play Beethoven, then I can swallow that, and maybe they're right. But if they don't like what I've written, then it's about me.
Acting came from growing up in dysfunction. I mean, a lot of great times, but a lot of dysfunction.
There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.
Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.
That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.
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