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

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

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

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

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.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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.

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

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

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.

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