The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.

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

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

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.

Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

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