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."

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'

The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.

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

I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.

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.