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.

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.

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 Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.

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.

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

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