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.

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

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.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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

’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.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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