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….

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life..

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers..

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight..

To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait..

The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests..

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat..

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline..

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old..

A meal without wine is like a day without sun.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my ….

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs..

Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves like travelers due to reach t….

An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys..

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to….

The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even ….

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet..

You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?.

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves..

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

I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and o….