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

I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets.

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.

The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.