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

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.