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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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

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

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.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

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.