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

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

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

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.

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

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. 

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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.

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