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.

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

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.

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.