Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (born April 1, 1755 in Belley , Département Ain , † February 2, 1826 in Paris ) was a French writer and one of the most important restaurateurs .
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Life
He was a judge by profession . In 1789 he was elected to the Assembly of the States General of 1789 for the Third Estate . 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 in very deprived circumstances in New York (where he also visited Philadelphia and Hartford (Connecticut) in the United States ) . He returned to Europe in 1796. After the coup d'état of 18th Brumaire VIII in autumn 1799, he became a judge at the Court of Cassation . His office gave him enough time to devote himself to his real passion, culinary art , on which he wrote several works.
The best-known of his works is “Physiologie du Goût” (German: “Physiologie des Taste”), published in 1826, translated into German in 1865, on which he is said to have worked for 25 years. It is not just about the preparation of exquisite dishes , but also fundamentally about very ingenious theories on table pleasures, a kind of life theory.
With his book he founded a new form of writing about food and made a significant contribution to the development of culinary art in Europe.
His aphorisms are famous, such as, for example, “A real gourmet who has eaten a partridge can tell which leg it used to sleep on” or “A dessert without cheese is like a one-eyed beauty”. In 1826 he wrote “The fate of peoples is determined by the way they eat [...]. Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are ”.
In his honor, a number of dishes bear his name, for example the savarin , but also an omelette filled with truffle slices and snipe cubes or tartlets filled with snipe casserole , which are served with a powerful sauce with game essence with game and poultry dishes.
Works
- Physiologie du Goût (1826). German by Hans Eckart Rübesamen: Physiology of taste. Introduced by Walther Kiaulehn, Heyne, Munich 1976 (= Heyne ex libris , 9).
- Physiology of taste or considerations about higher dining pleasure: with woodcuts from the 1864 edition . Selected, trans. and introduced by Emil Ludwig. First admission to the DNB Physiology of Taste or Physiological Instructions for studying table pleasures . Trans. U. with note vers. by Carl Vogt, Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1865 (1878, 4th edition); Reprint of the first edition Leipzig 1983.
Brillat Savarin plaque
The Brillat Savarin plaque, which is awarded to restaurateurs by the FBMA Foundation, was named after him.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in the Gutenberg-DE project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Wurm: The influence of nutrition on the human constitution with special consideration of the dietary protein. A compilation of views, observations and doctrines from antiquity to the present. (= Nutrition and constitution , 1) In: Würzburger medical history reports. Volume 3, 1985, pp. 283-320, p. 292 (cited).
- ↑ http://www.brillat-savarin-plakette.de/
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthèlme |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and gastronomy critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1755 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belley , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1826 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |