Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at a dinner where there was not a pièce truffée? Who has not felt his mouth water in hearing truffles a la provencale spoken of? In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

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

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.