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

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. 

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

’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.

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.

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.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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