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

It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.

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

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

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

A meal without wine is like a day without sun

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.