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

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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.