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

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.

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

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

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