A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.

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

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

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.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

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

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. 

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

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

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