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

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

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

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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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. 

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