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.

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

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

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

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

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

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

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

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

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

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.