'Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever you want to have a really good cup of chocolate, make it the day before, in a porcelain coffeepot, and let it set. The night's rest will concentrate it and give it a velvety quality which will make it better. Our good God cannot possibly take offense at this little refinement, since he himself is everything that is most perfect.'

The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.

Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.

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