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

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

It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.

If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.

The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.