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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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