In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

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.

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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