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.

It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.

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

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

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

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.