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

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. 

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.

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

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