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.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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