Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.
The greatest dishes are very simple.
People who do not accept the new, grow old very quickly.
Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.
Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.
Above all, keep it simple.
So long as people don’t know how to eat they will not have good cooks.
Indeed, stock is everything in cooking. Without it, nothing can be done.
Fish without wine is like egg without salt.
Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world.