Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when presented with such a dish, show neither the rush of desire, nor the radiance of ecstasy, may justly be deemed unworthy of the honors of the sitting, and its related delights.

To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.

Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

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.

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

Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.