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

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

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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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