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

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

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.

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

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

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.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.