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.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

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