Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.

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.

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.