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The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

—Lucretius, 50 BC

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

—Sydney Smith, 1855

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

—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

—George Herbert, 1651

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

—Horace, 20 BC

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

—La Rochefoucauld, 1678

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

—William Shakespeare, c. 1595

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

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

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

—Mencius, 300 BC

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943

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