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

Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!

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

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.

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

Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.