... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.

Beef is the soul of cooking.

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.'

... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.

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

My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.