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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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