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

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

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 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.

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

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets.