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.

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.

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.