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.

Wine makes every meal an occasion.

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

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

Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.

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