The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

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.

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

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

A meal without wine is like a day without sun