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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.
The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.
Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.
Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.
I wouldn't hunt a person down for food. But if he were already dead.
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.
No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!
If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?
Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.
Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.
Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.
Health foods make promises that only the Second Coming could fulfill.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.
Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.
A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.
Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.
To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.
Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.
Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.