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

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.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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. 

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.

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

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.

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.