Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is their drawing room and the sun their lamp. Besides, they have appetite, Nature's special gift, which lends to such a meal a vivacity unknown indoors, however beautiful the surroundings.