Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.
To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad.
It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach.
The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.
Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.
A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.
