Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Jean Anthelme Brillat -Savarin ( born April 1, 1755 in Belley, Ain department, † February 2nd 1826 in Paris) was a French writer and one of the most important French Gastrosophen.

Life

He was a professional judge. In 1789 he was elected for the third estate in the Estates-General met in 1789. During the Reign of Terror he emigrated and lived in 1794 in Moudon and Lausanne in Switzerland, as well as in London, and then for two years under very privation circumstances in New York ( where he also attended Philadelphia and Hartford ( Connecticut ) in the United States). He returned to Europe in 1796. After the coup of 18 Brumaire in the autumn of 1799 he became a judge of the Supreme Court. His office gave him sufficient time to his real passion, the culinary arts to pursue, about which he wrote several works.

The most famous of his works is " La Physiologie du goût " ( German: " The Physiology of Taste " ), published in 1826, translated into German in 1865, where he is said to have worked for 25 years. In it 's not just about preparing exquisite dishes, but basically involve very ingenious theories to taste the pleasures, a kind of life teaching.

With his book, he established a new form of writing about food and contributed significantly to the development in Europe of the culinary arts.

Famous are his aphorisms such as " A real foodie who has eaten a partridge can say used on which leg it to sleep " or " A good meal without dessert is like a one-eyed beauty".

In his honor, a number of food its name, for example, the Savarin, but also one filled with truffle slices and Schnepf diced omelet or stuffed with Schnepf casserole mass tartlets, served with a force sauce with wild essence to game and poultry dishes.

Works

• The Physiology of Taste or reflections on the higher sheet pleasure. Woodcuts of the 1864 edition of Selected, trans.. and introduced by Emil Ludwig. First record in the DNB Physiology of Taste or Physiological guidance for studying the blackboard delights. Translator's Note and with vers. by Carl Vogt, Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1865 (1878, 4th edition ); Reprint of the edition Leipzig 1983.

Brillat -Savarin Plaque

According to him, the Brillat -Savarin Plaque was named, which is awarded by the Foundation as FBMA award to restaurateurs.