I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

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

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

A meal without wine is like a day without sun

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.

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.