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

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye