To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

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

Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves like travelers due to reach their destination together.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.