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.

I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

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.

The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.