A meal without wine is like a day without sun

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

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

I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets.

Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.

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.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.