The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.

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

Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.