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

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. 

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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