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 eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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.

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.

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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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

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