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

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!

I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable