One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
People who love to eat are always the best people.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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