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

If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.

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

At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

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