Gastronomy Quotes

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and the contentment of a cud-chewing animal, a state that should be termed the physical melancholy of gastronomy.

Die gastronomischen Kenntnisse sind allen Menschen nöthig, insofern alle die Summe des Vergnügens, die ihnen bestimmt ist, zu vermehren streben.