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

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at a dinner where there was not a pièce truffée? Who has not felt his mouth water in hearing truffles a la provencale spoken of? In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

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

Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.

Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.