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

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

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

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.

The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel.

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

A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar.