Best Flavor Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 10

“Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on the volatile plant compounds that subtly add up to taste and food value. Breeding to increase shelf life also has tended to decrease palatability. Bizarre as it seems, we've accepted a tradeoff that amounts to: "Give me every vegetable in every season, even if it tastes like a cardboard picture of its former self."”

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.”

Want Should Littles Sweet Keys Balance Cooking Flavor Acid Harmonious Savory

Author:Gail Simmons

“I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They were shallow at first, and short, like claw marks made by a desperate cat that wanted to hid under the front porch. Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care.”

“Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize there are more flavors of pain than coffee. Pain does two things: it teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. And everything that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one way or another.”

“Primates are the only animals on the face of the earth that can taste sweet and see color. We were designed by nature to see, grasp, eat, and enjoy the flavor of colorful, sweet fruits.”

Earth Faces Enjoy Animal Color Sweet Taste Fruit Flavor Colorful Primates Sweet Fruit

Author:Joel Fuhrman

“I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at the store, oftentimes I will drop it so that is achieves its maximum flavor potential.”

Ifs Humor Funny Fall Achieve Machines Stores Bars Flavor Candy Maximum Snacks Candy Bar Vending Machines

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you.”

Giving Ideas Whole Cooking Flavor

Author:Jamie Oliver

“I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Eye Flavor Presentation Colorful

Author:Giada De Laurentiis

“My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.”

Inspiration Mother Creativity Inspire And Love Simplicity Cooks New Things Grandfather Flavor Aunt My Grandfather Food Love

Author:Giada De Laurentiis

“For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and the journalists' experiences are probably pale flavors, but they carry nonetheless a hint of ambrosia.”

Poet Fishes Journalism Journalist Touched Comparison Fishing Pale Flavor Hints Ambrosia

Book:The One that Got Away: A Memoir

Source: The One that Got Away: A Memoir

“Many women... have buoyed me up in times of weariness and stress. Each friend was important... Their words have seasoned my life. Influence, just like salt shaken out, is hard to see, but its flavor is hard to miss.”

Important Hard Friendship Influence Missing Stress Salt Flavor Weariness

Author:Pam Farrel

“Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.”

Humans Emotion Compassion Lord Divine Divinity Flavor Human Emotions

Book:Treasury of Thought

Source: Treasury of Thought

“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Next Known Security Corners Cease Flavor Predictable

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.”

Thinking Ethics Pursue Chef Flavor Good Ethics

Author:Dan Barber

“Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.”

Quality Combination Ingredients Flavor

Author:Gail Simmons

“When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.”

Pursue Ecology Flavor

Author:Dan Barber

“Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn't and that is exactly why we do.”

Knows Made Ideas Inspiration Moving Born Steps Adventure Sweet Ordinary Logic Clouds Excitement Realms Delicate Flavor Forbidden Juice Good Sense Sprouts Cobwebs

Author:Brigid Lowry

“Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor.”

Giving Energy Source Flavor Energy Sources Tofu

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.”

Has Beens Soul Night Lost Dark Taken Periods Transformation Familiar Weather Divinity Flavor Fullness Richness Dark Night Dark Times Dark Night Of The Soul

Book:Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook

Source: Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook

“I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!”

Knows Want I Can Moments Happens Three Months Corners Flavor Three Months Around The Corner Flavor Of The Month

Author:Michael Fassbender

“Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.”

Writing Song Food Color Painting Cooking Notes Culinary Chef Flavor Composing Combining Creativeness

Author:Wolfgang Puck

“I buy soy sauce and flavor it five different ways: with sake, mirin, sugar, kombu and bonito flakes. I use them on lots of dishes at home.”

Way Different Use Home Five Sake Different Ways Sugar Dishes Flavor Sauce Flakes Soy Soy Sauce

Author:Masaharu Morimoto

“When you come into our house, you get a flavor for our life, our travels, our kids, our 18-year-old poodle who is like, blind, deaf and incontinent but so happy.”

Years Kids House Our Lives Blind Flavor Deaf Poodles

Author:Debi Mazar

“I add a lot of citrus to my food and I think that flavors it. And, to me, that what makes it healthier, lower in fat, lower in calories. It adds lots of flavor. Spices, of course. But citrus is definitely kind of my go-to to season and really to really make those flavors, make that food come alive.”

Thinking Kind Courses Alive Seasons Add Fats Flavor Spices Calories Citrus

Author:Cat Cora

“The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.”

May Grows Nature Infinite Grass Bites Investigation Flavor Pastures

Author:Aldous Huxley

“All these seven colors are part of one rainbow, yet they are all different. They have their own quality, their own identity, their own flavor to it. So it is a rainbow. The Divine loves diversity, that is why he made us all different.”

Made Different Quality Identity Divine Color Diversity Seven Rainbow Flavor Divine Love

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“She's got those big black eyes with plenty shiny white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she knows what God gave women eyelashes for, too. Her hair is not what you might call straight. It's negro hair, but it's got a kind of white flavor. Like the piece of string out of a ham. It's not ham at all, but it's been around ham and got the flavor.”

Knows Kind Bigs Might Eye Black White Pieces Hair Shining Brands Plenty Strings Flavor Brand New Ham Eyelashes Black Eyes

Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.”

“Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor.”

World Wells Heart Country My Heart Mirrors Dear Albums Smoke Parks Angle Flavor World Music

Author:Lee Ritenour

“Life has its own flavor.”

Meaningful Flavor

Author:Juhi Chawla

“The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in.”

Mind Depends Taste Mindfulness Insight Flavor Tofu

Author:Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

“When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.”

Giving Black Comedy Decided Routes Flavor Black Comedy

Author:Terry Southern

“The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.”

Body Numbers Infinite Peculiar Flavor

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.”

Soul Taste Pure Vices Meals Bitterness Lions Lacking Flavor Bland Dens Tasty Ada

Book:The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“I always start my breakfast out with oatmeal, because it's full of vitamin D, it's a great carb, and you can get, like, some fun flavors in there.”

Fun Breakfast Flavor Vitamins Carbs Oatmeal Vitamin D

Author:Gracie Gold

“I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying.”

Littles Use Speak Natural Seasons Cooking Technique Fats Heat Flavor Frying

Author:Cat Cora

“Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.”

Way Use Fine Taste Aspect Cooking Technique Meals Ingredients Satisfying Engaging Flavor Cleaning Presenting

Author:Steve Albini

“The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.”

Book Lost Generations Fruit Flavor Peaches Book Learning Apricots

Author:Ezra Pound

“And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. 'This is what I should have been doing for the last thirty years. What was I thinking?' So I was, then I was in and then I had to just keep going with it.”

Thinking Knows Should Writing Years Has Beens Lasts Found Like You Should Have Ice Thirty Keep Going Cream Flavor Ice Cream Should Have Been Thirty Years Your Favorite

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.”

Should Writing Used Waste Paper Should Have Dinner Saved Newspapers Magazines Breakfast Lunch Throwing Guests Mail Delicious Flavor Ink Printing Baskets Dinner Guests

Book:M: Writings ’67–’72

Source: M: Writings ’67–’72

“I don't cook 'concepts.' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor.”

Heart Use Concepts Cooks Flavor

Author:Marcella Hazan

“Some of the best cooks that I've cooked with, whether it's in New York or Chicago or even here in Philadelphia, are actually Ecuadorians. And there's something about their palates that really just inspires me, and has a really deep sense of flavor.”

New York Inspire Cooks Chicago Flavor Philadelphia Palate Really Deep

Author:Jose Garces

“Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic.”

Men Want Grows Existence Magic Ready Products Depends Tired Medicine Paint Oil Enjoyed Intimate Nuts Flavor Resumes Intimate Relationships

Author:Euell Gibbons

“Every Thanksgiving table should be blessed with the presence of a long-married pair who bring out the best in each other, are completely enamored despite their differences, and leave every other guest thinking, I’ll have what they’re having. Our holiday pies honor such so there’s a pleasant mix of textures and flavors in every bite. No matter how you slice partnerships, each spotlighting the perfect marriage of crust and filling these six irresistible desserts, there is a whole lot to love.”

“Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas.”

Enjoy Taste Embrace Unexpected Guests Flavor Vegas Las Vegas

Author:Michael Mina

“Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.”

People Done Five Minutes Stage Fronts Cooking Flavor Five Minutes Demonstration

Author:Rocco DiSpirito

“I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.”

Culture Grew Grew Up Flavor Jamaica Coconuts

Author:Ziggy Marley

“Store spices in a cool, dark place, not above your stove. Humidity, light and heat will cause herbs and spices to lose their flavor.”

Light Causes Loses Dark Stores Heat Flavor Spices Herbs Dark Places Stoves Humidity Herbs And Spices

Author:Rick Tramonto

“Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.”

Thinking Feels Divine Broken Eternal My Friends Empty Wine Lips Cups Evening Yield Flavor Vow Celestial Intoxication Bursting Eternal Love

Book:The Confession of a Child of the Century

Source: The Confession of a Child of the Century

“If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.”

Ifs Giving Should Hate Violence Hatred Selfishness Hated Falsehood Flavor

Author:Ludwig Borne

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