The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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

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.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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

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