Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each ….

A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skil….

To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad..

The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself..

Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important..

It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach..