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

No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.