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. 

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

’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.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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