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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

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

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.