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.

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

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

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

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.

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

You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?