Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.

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

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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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. 

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

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.