1) ‘To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.’

La Rochefoucauld

2) ‘I didn’t fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.’

Unknown

3) ‘Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.’

Samuel Pepys

4) ‘The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.’

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin