Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

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

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.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

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 proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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.

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.

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