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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
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... →
Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet... →
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a... →
I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic... →
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... →
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... →
Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.
Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
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