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

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

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

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

Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.

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

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.