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.

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

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

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. 

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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