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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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