The method of serving dish by dish is the garlick of the art of good eating. It enables us to eat hot, long, and much. Soup must be eaten boiling hot, and coffee drank burning. Happy those who have their palates delicate and their throats paved. Cheese is the biscuit of drunkards.
Hot milk is the true and excellent dissolvent of oysters.
New wine, a common friendly dinner, and music by amateurs are three things to be dreaded. Five hours at table are a reasonable latitude for a numerous company at a sumptuous dinner. A gormand is in his prime from forty to sixty years of age. Some persons are afraid to sit at a table with twelve others. We are of opinion that the number thirteen ought to create no other apprehension that that of there being a sufficient provision made for twelve only.