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."

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.

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

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

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

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.