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

I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.

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.

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.