Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.

An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.

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

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

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

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.