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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

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