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

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.

‘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. 

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

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

It 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.

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.

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.

Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

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

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