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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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. 

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

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