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

A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?"

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.

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

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

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.