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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.

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

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. 

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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.