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.

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

Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves like travelers due to reach their destination together.

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 truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

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