Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.

To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

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

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