Chicken may be eaten constantly without becoming nauseating.

Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.

Wine makes every meal an occasion.

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.

Black coffee must be strong and very hot; if strong coffee does not agree with you, do not drink black coffee. And if you do not drink black coffee, do not drink any coffee at all.

Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old.

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.