When you have breakfasted well and fully, if you will drink a big cup of chocolate at the end you will have digested the whole perfectly three hours later, and you will still be able to dine. Because of my scientific enthusiasm and the sheer force of my eloquence I have persuaded a number of ladies to try this, although they were convinced it would kill them; they have always found themselves in fine shape indeed, and have not forgotten to give the Professor his rightful due.

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.

The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.

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

You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable

Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.