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

A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf. 

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.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.

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

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.