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.

Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.

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

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

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.

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

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.