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

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. 

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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.

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

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