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“Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.”

Reason Food Cooking Chinese Culinary Custard Chopsticks

Book:Milligan's Meaning of Life: An Autobiography of Sorts

Source: Milligan's Meaning of Life: An Autobiography of Sorts

“We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.”

Wells Effects Food Color Teeth Chinese Culinary Flavor Fragrance Texture Crisps

Book:My country and my people

Source: My country and my people

“I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.”

Can Do Food Arms Eating Method Tables Cooking Chinese Culinary

Author:Jeff Smith

“Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!”

Reason Simple Food Please Taste Cooking Chinese Cooks Reason Why Culinary Vegetables

Author:Jeff Smith

“What comforted me? That is easy. It was a strong cold chicken jelly so very, very thick. My mother's Chinese cook would fix it. He would cook it down, condense it-this broth with all sorts of feet in it, then it would gell into sheer bliss. It kept me alive once for three weeks when I was ill as a child. And I've always craved it since.”

Children Mother Three Strong Easy Alive Week Feet Food Cold Cooking Ill Chinese Cooks Bliss Culinary Chickens Thick Sheer Jelly

Author:James Beard

“Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.”

Food Cooking Chinese Culinary Oklahoma Chinese Food

Author:Bryan Q. Miller

“Too many cooks spoil the broth”

Food Chinese Cooks Contradictory Spoil Contradicting Proverbs Wisdom Chinese Proverb Spanish Proverb Too Much Of A Good Thing Cooks In The Kitchen Haste Makes Waste Have Your Cake And Eat It Too Honor Among Thieves More The Merrier

Book:The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon

Source: The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon

“I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power.”

Problem Hours Food Cooking Hungry Chinese Restaurants Culinary Delicious Chinese Food

Author:Dick Cavett

“I love the Chinese words for greeting: not strictly 'Hello' but 'Have you eaten yet?”

Food Chinese Hello Greetings

Author:Rick Stein