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• I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
• It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little…
• Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first.…
• Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.
• A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate…
• In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter…
• A meal without wine is like a day without sun
• To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best…
• The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.
• The limits of pleasures are as yet neither known nor fixed, and we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we…
• Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable
• Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste.

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