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.

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. 

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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