Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

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

Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when presented with such a dish, show neither the rush of desire, nor the radiance of ecstasy, may justly be deemed unworthy of the honors of the sitting, and its related delights.