“NOTE-Always remove the brown hull from the peanuts even though the recipe does not say so.”
Source: How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption:
“For a scavenger, patience is the key to the pantry.”
Source: Cry of the Kalahari
“Onion tartlets, pastry puffs stuffed with cheese, a terrine of mushroom and hazelnuts. There's an pharaoh-sized pyramid of exotic fruits. The pineapples alone must have cost a small fortune. And, of course, there's the sham.”
Source: The Wallflower Wager
“A potato may look like a dirty stone, but cutting it and frying it will get you French Fries, a side dish for any burger.”
Source: Andrew Zimmern visits Paris: Chapter 9 from THE BIZARRE TRUTH
“Defeat your enemy from within.”
Source: The Art of War
“The sea is a desert of waves,
A wilderness of water.”
Source: Selected poems
“Mì Tàu chính cống là mấy tiệm mì, xe mì có chữ ký phía sau. Thí dụ như Tài Ký, Minh Ký, Tân Ký ... Mầy để ý coi, tiệm nào cũng có chữ ký hết. Có chữ ký mới ngon.”
Source: Chú Chiếu Bóng, Nhà Ảo Thuật, Tay Đánh Bài Và Tụi Con Nít Xóm Nhỏ Sài Gòn Năm Ấy
“Humanity faces a continuing challenge to ensure that everyone can eat today, and climate change makes the challenge of eating tomorrow all the more daunting. But the way we are producing our food, on chemical-intensive, industrial-scale farms, is quite literally devouring the natural resources – soil, water, seeds, climate – on which future food production depends.”
“Of course, only Americans can name a shop In-n-Out Burger without collapsing into a heap of dirty sniggers. You know the difference between them and us? To us, a double entendre means only one thing; to them, it means absolutely nothing.”
Source: Table talk
“Poor quality food was a feature of high altitude observatories.”