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

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

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

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

I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is their drawing room and the sun their lamp. Besides, they have appetite, Nature's special gift, which lends to such a meal a vivacity unknown indoors, however beautiful the surroundings.