To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

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

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

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

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.

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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

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