Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

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

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

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

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

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.