Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

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.

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

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

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.