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

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

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. 

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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.