An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.

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

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable