The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.

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

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

The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.

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.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

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