Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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

Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable

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

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

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.

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.