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 safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.