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

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. 

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

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

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.

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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