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

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

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