Jean anthelme brillat-savarin biography of barack
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From his restaurant "La Pyramide" in Vienne, an out-of-the-way town south of Lyon, he gained three Michelin stars and trained a generation of French master chefs: Paul Bocuse, Alain Chapel, Louis Outhier, Georges Perrier and Jean and Pierre, the Brothers Troisgros.
The restaurant was founded shortly after World War I. From its kitchen came the modern lightly-thickened sauces, baby vegetables and other aspects of nouvelle cuisine. During the regime of Vichy France, Point served refugees fleeing the German invasion. When German officers began patronizing his establishment, he stopped serving dinner. When they demanded tables for lunch, he closed his restaurant altogether.
His book Ma Gastronomie contains refined techniques rather than traditional full recipes.
In , when the Michelin Guide first began to rank French restaurants in Paris and the provinces with its system of one, two and three stars, La Pyramide fell into the top three stars category. He insisted that his cooks begin e
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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme
BRILLAT-SAVARIN, JEAN ANTHELME. The author of the best-known work of gastronomy, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (&#x;), was born in Belley in the region of Bresse, studied law in Dijon, became a lawyer and president of the civil court at Ain, a mayor of Belley, and a commander of the National Guard. In he was chosen to be a deputy to the National Assembly. In the Revolutionary Tribunal accused him of "moderatism" and he fled to Switzerland, Holland, and finally America. In New York he supported himself for three years by teaching French and playing the violin in the John Street Theatre, but he also traveled north through New England, where he hunted game in good company, and south to Philadelphia where he met Thomas Jefferson. Returned to France in , he was appointed judge to the Supreme Court of Appeals in Paris.
As a bachelor gourmand, he entertained often in his home on the Rue de Richelieu and frequented such stylish restaurants as Grand Vé
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
French lawyer, politician and culinary writer
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin | |
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Posthumous portrait, | |
| Born | 2 April Belley, France |
| Died | 2 February () (aged&#;70) Paris, France |
| Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
| Notable works | Physiologie ni goût (The Physiology of Taste) |
"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are."
Aphorism IV, Physiologie ni goût[1]
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃ɑ̃tɛlmbʁijasavaʁɛ̃]; 2 April – 2 February ) was a French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of Physiologie ni goût (The Physiology of Taste), became celebrated for his culinary reminiscences and reflections on the craft and science of cookery and the art of eating.
Rising to modest eminence in the gods years of France's Ancien Régime, Brillat-Savarin had to escape inom