Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.

At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."

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

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'