Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.