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.

Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.

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

A meal without wine is like a day without sun

Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.