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

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

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.

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

Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when presented with such a dish, show neither the rush of desire, nor the radiance of ecstasy, may justly be deemed unworthy of the honors of the sitting, and its related delights.