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.

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

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

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

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.

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