Food is an important part of a balanced diet. – Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life, “Food for Thought and Vice Versa”

The best General Rule for Diet that I can write, is to Eat and Drink only of such Foods—at such times,—and in such quantities—as Experience has convinced you, agree with your Constitution—and absolutely to avoid all other. – William Kitchiner (1775–1827), “Art of Invigorating Life,” The Art of Invi

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. – Voltaire