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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.