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.

At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

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

The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.

A meal without wine is like a day without sun