The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when presented with such a dish, show neither the rush of desire, nor the radiance of ecstasy, may justly be deemed unworthy of the honors of the sitting, and its related delights.

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

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