Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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

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.

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

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

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. 

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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