Best food & garlic Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Cross Creek Cookery

“As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.”

Life Is Food Regard Cooking Refuse Oil Tea Culinary Disgusting Dishes Sample Olives Pudding Garlic Olive Oil

Book:The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945

“He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.”

Given Food Fellows Cooking Train Culinary Sandwiches Garlic Frenchmen

Book:The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: Memories and impressions

Source: The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: Memories and impressions

“Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.”

People Made Home Food Cooking Wine Oil Bread Culinary Olives Garlic Olive Oil Flasks

Author:Patience Gray

“It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach.”

Knows Has Beens Said Wonder Food Approach Cooking Culinary Odor Garlic

Author:George Ellwanger

“PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.”

Food Cooking Species Culinary Feathers Indigenous Geese Portugal Portuguese Garlic

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Some hours after eating this dish [lièvre à la royale, which contains 20 cloves of garlic and twice that quantity of shallots], there is a peculiar sensation of liberation in the head. and it is sensation of smell.”

Hours Food Eating Smell Liberation Sensations Peculiar Quantity Dishes Garlic

Author:Patience Gray

“You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.”

Enough New York Food New York Times Garlic

Author:Morley Safer

“Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.”

Food Cost Deserve Oil Lazy Culinary Jars Rotting Garlic Kitchen Confidential

Book:Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw

Source: Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw

“There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.”

World Food Miracle Cooking Culinary Deserving Garlic

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“Garlic is as good as ten mothers.”

Mother Food Ten Cooking Culinary Garlic

Author:Les Blank

“There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.”

Earth Water Fire Five Air Food Elements Garlic Five Elements

Author:Louis Diat

“Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.”

Actors Food Sweet Breaths Dear Onions Garlic

Book:A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format

“Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.”

Two Seems Culture Food Cooking Warm Smell Dust Characteristics Gas Culinary Athens Garlic Tweed

Book:Labels: A Mediterranean Journal

Source: Labels: A Mediterranean Journal

“My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.”

Food Judgment Blessed Finals Ice Exception Bless Vegetables Cream Pie Ice Cream Bulbs Hardy Garlic

Author:Angelo Pellegrini

“Pounding fragrant things - particularly garlic, basil, parsley - is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries, coriander seeds and the grilled fruits of the chilli pepper. Pounding these things produces an alteration in one's being - from sighing with fatigue to inhaling with pleasure. The cheering effects of herbs and alliums cannot be too often reiterated. Virgil's appetite was probably improved equally by pounding garlic as by eating it.”

Pleasure Effects Food Produce Eating Fruit Seeds Cheer Appetite Vegetables Fatigue Antidote Herbs Berries Peppers Alterations Garlic Basil Parsley

Author:Patience Gray

“Garlick maketh a man wynke, drynke, and stynke.”

Men Food Cooking Culinary Garlic

Author:Thomas Nash

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