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.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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

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

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

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

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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