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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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