The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.

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

A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?"

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

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

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.