The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

A meal without wine is like a day without sun

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.

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

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

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.