The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.

Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.

The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

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

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