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

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.

I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.