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

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do 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.

At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."

The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

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

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.