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

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

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

’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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.