Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.

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.

Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.