Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable

For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'

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

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

When you have breakfasted well and fully, if you will drink a big cup of chocolate at the end you will have digested the whole perfectly three hours later, and you will still be able to dine. Because of my scientific enthusiasm and the sheer force of my eloquence I have persuaded a number of ladies to try this, although they were convinced it would kill them; they have always found themselves in fine shape indeed, and have not forgotten to give the Professor his rightful due.