Lapham’s Quarterly

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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.

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

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.