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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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