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

The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

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

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.