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“For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.”

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M. F. K. Fisher, an American renowned food writer, was born on July 3, 1908, and passed away on June 22, 1992. Her works are known for their deep exploration of the relationship between food and human emotions, culture, and society. more

“Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.”

People Ifs Waiting Difficult Cases Food Advantage Cooking Prepared Culinary Occupation Satisfying Vegetables Disposition Delicious Beans Ifs And Punctual Posse

Author:Andre Simon

“There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a quart, That dyspeptic old man of Orleans.”

Men Given Sports Eating Old Man Vegetables Beans

Book:A Book of Learned Nonsense

Source: A Book of Learned Nonsense

“Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.”

People Nations Natural Victim Disaster Vegetables Natural Disaster Soybeans

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Red beans and ricely yours.”

Red Vegetables Beans

Book:Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings

Source: Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings

“Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rise weeping.”

Sun Bed Hot Vegetables Weeping Herbs Mint Lavender Savory Marigolds Herbs And Spices

Author:William Shakespeare

“The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny jam-tart cases, watery gooseberry sauce; trifle made with a resinous wine, so jammy that all my teeth lit up at once.”

Kind Made Cases Wine Tiny Teeth Loud Meals Vegetables Soup Vulgar Lit Potatoes Jam Trifles Sauce Pretentious Pork Peas Cabbage Tarts Jammies

Author:Anthony Burgess

“Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.”

Want Important Results Principles Taste Vegetables What's Important Onions Carrots Cabbage Beets Borscht

Author:Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.”

Thinking Bigs Given Can Do Company Food Cooking Bread Developing Culinary Vegetables Onions

Author:Robert Orben

“The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.”

Source: Prospero's cell: a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra

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