The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

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

A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.