It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.

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

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

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