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

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

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

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.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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.

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

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

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

’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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