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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.