Gourmandise Is An Impassioned, Rational, And Habitual

Alcohol Carries The Pleasures Of The Palate To Their Highest Degree.

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 Our Banquets.

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 A Pièce Truffée? Who Has Not Felt His Mouth Water In Hearing Truffles A La Provencale Spoken Of? In Fine, The Truffle Is The Very Diamond Of Gastronomy.

Gourmandism Is An Act Of Judgment, By Which We Prefer Things Which Have A Pleasant Taste To Those Which Lack This Quality.

The Limits Of Pleasure Are As Yet Neither Known Nor Fixed, And That We Have No Idea What Degree Of Bodily Bliss We Are Capable Of Attaining.