‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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.

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. 

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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