"A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman who has lost an eye"
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
“A Gourmand is not only one who eats with depth, choice, reflection and sensuality; he who leaves nothing on his plate or in his glass; he who has never afflicted his host by a refusal or his neighbor by fits of sobriety; he must add to the most strident appetite, that jovial humor without which the best of feasts is only a sad hecatomb; always ready to return, he must constantly engage all the senses with which Nature has endowed him; finally, his memory must be adorned with a host of anecdotes, stories, and amusing tales, which he places in the interval between services and in the interstices of food, so that sober people will forgive his appetite.”