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The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.
Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.
A meal without wine is like a day without sun
I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.
The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye
To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.
Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.
The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.
No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.
The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.
Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.
Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.
I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.
The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating
The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.
For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'
Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.
Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.
The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.
The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.
Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.
The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.
Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.
Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.
Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.
The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.
Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.
An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.
You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable
I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.
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.
Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.
