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.

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

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

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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.

No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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