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

At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at a dinner where there was not a pièce truffée? Who has not felt his mouth water in hearing truffles a la provencale spoken of? In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.

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.

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."

You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

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.