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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

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

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.