Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.

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

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

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

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.