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

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

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.

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.