The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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.