Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves like travelers due to reach their destination together.

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

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

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

A meal without wine is like a day without sun