Food

• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. — Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
• It's a very odd thing—
  As odd as can be—
  That whatever Miss T. eats
  Turns into Miss T.
  —Walter de la Mare
• Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. — Shirley Conran
• Eat to live, and not live to eat. — Benjamin Franklin
• I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. — Henry IV
• He was a bold man who first swallowed an oyster. — James I
• Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. [Let them eat cake.] — Marie Antoinette
• In eating, a third of the stomach should be filled with food, a third with drink, and the rest left empty. — The Talmud
• A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. — Elsa Shiaparelli