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

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

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.