I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.'

Beef is the soul of cooking.

Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach.

... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.