Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!

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

I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets.

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

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

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.