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.

Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

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.