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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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

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

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

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