Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.

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

The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.

It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.

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."

At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.