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

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

A meal without wine is like a day without sun

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.

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.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.