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

—Lord Byron, 1812

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

—Julia Child, 2001

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

—Aldous Huxley, 1929

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.

—Gordon Ramsey, 2003

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

—Luis Buñuel, 1983

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1929

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

—William Shakespeare, c. 1595

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

—Seneca the Younger, c. 60

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.

—Herman Melville, 1851

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

—Lucretius, 50 BC

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

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

—Socrates, c. 430 BC

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

—St. Jerome, 395