What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

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

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.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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.