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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.