He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.

Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.