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.

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

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.

In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.

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

An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.