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

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

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

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.