The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

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

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

Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you.

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

The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.