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

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

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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

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

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

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 an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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

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.

A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

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

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