Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.

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

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

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