A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60Issue Coming Soon
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The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886It 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.
—Adam Smith, 1776’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCWhy is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCThe decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395Pages
