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.

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

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

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

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

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