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

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.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf. 

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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.

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

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