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.

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.