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

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

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

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.

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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.

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.

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