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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.