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.

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

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

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

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

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

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. 

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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.

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