A meal without wine is like a day without sun

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.

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.

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

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.