In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.

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.

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets.

At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.