Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

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

A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?"

You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

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

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

In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.