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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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