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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

’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.