To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Hunger is a good cook.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

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