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

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.