What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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.