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

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'

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.

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.

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.

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.