To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

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

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

For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

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

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.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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