The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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