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.

An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

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.

I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is their drawing room and the sun their lamp. Besides, they have appetite, Nature's special gift, which lends to such a meal a vivacity unknown indoors, however beautiful the surroundings.