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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. 

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.