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

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.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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.

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

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

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

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

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

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

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