The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

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

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.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

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

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.