Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook..

Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable.

At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at a dinner where there was not….

It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily dige….

La truffe n'est point un aphrodisiaque positif; mais elle peut, en certaines occasions, rendre les femmes plus tendres et les hommes plus aimables. T….

Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite ….

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy..

Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe i….

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

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other..

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others..

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating..

The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats..

At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked ….

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

La de couverte d'un mets nouveau fait plus pour le bonheur du genre humain que la de couverte d'une e toile. The discoveryof a newdish doesmore fo….

Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality..

To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but a….

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 remark….

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far differe….

The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remain….