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

—William Shakespeare, c. 1595

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

—Luis Buñuel, 1983

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

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

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

—Julia Child, 2001

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

—Molière, 1666

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943

To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1678

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

—St. Jerome, 395

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.

—Gordon Ramsey, 2003

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886

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.

—Adam Smith, 1776

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

—George Herbert, 1651

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

—David Hume, 1751