Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.

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.

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.