It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.

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.

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

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

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.