To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.