The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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.

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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