He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.