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

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

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. 

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.