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.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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 belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

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.

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

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

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

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

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.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.