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.

A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?"

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

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.