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

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.

Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.