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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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