Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826)
Author of The Physiology of Taste or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
About the Author
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was born in Belley, France, in 1755, becoming a lawyer and then mayor of his hometown. After fleeing the revolutionists in 1793, he was exiled briefly in the United States (where he continued his culinary investigations with equal zeal), until returning to Paris and show more being appointed judge in the court of appeals. He spent the last twenty-five years of his life living peacefully and writing The Physiology of Taste. Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher transformed thoughts and observations about food into literature and is widely acknowledged as the creator of the genre we now call "food writing." In a career that extended over seven decades until her death in 1992, she wrote twenty-six books, inspiring three generations of readers. show less
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Works by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The HANDBOOK OF DINING; or, CORPULENCY AND LEANNESS Scientifically Considered. Comprising the art of dining on correct… (2010) 4 copies
A filosofia do gosto 2 copies
Gastronom og filosof 2 copies
Physiologie du goût I 1 copy
Physiologie du goût II 1 copy
Meditations gastronomiques 1 copy
The Pleasures of Life 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme
- Birthdate
- 1755-04-01
- Date of death
- 1826-02-02
- Burial location
- Cimetière du Père Lachaise (Division 28), Paris, France
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Belley, Ain, France
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Places of residence
- Belley, France
Switzerland
USA
Holland
Paris, France - Education
- University of Dijon (Lic., 1778)
Collège de Belley - Occupations
- politician
gastronome
writer
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mayor (Belley ∙ France)
lawyer (show all 7)
judge - Awards and honors
- Chevalier de l’Empire (1808)
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- Works
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- Members
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