Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father’s toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense – sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

L’alcool est le monarque des liquides, et porte au dernier degre l’exaltation palatale. Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation.

Gluttony is mankind’s exclusive prerogative.

For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. ‘Who goes there?’

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. “Much obliged,” said he, pushing the plate aside, “I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.”

La truffe n’est point un aphrodisiaque positif; mais elle peut, en certaines occasions, rendre les femmes plus tendres et les hommes plus aimables. The truffle is not a true aphrodisiac; but in certain circumstances it can make women more affectionate and men more attentive.

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

La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu’est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye.