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

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.

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

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.

I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.