‘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.

’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.