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.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

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

It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

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