Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.