The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

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 destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.

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

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