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 an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

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?

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

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.

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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