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“A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.”

“Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.”

Food Cold Speech Green Cooking Appeals Culinary Chickens Plates Dreary Donation Peas Banquets

Author:Bennett Cerf

“Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.”

Different Sky Food Green Cooking Culinary Cheese Pastures

Author:Italo Calvino

“Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth.”

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Author:Russell Baker

“He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit rooms that lay like glass in his mind. He stood there breathing everything in, the hurry of everyone. First, he thought, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato.”

Needs Mind Firsts Rooms Sun Air Food Months First Time Green Cooking Lays Bottom Shoes Glasses Breathing Culinary Hospitals Lit Rubber Gelato

Book:The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.”

Pleasure Food Red Window Green Cooking Fruit Colour Shops Culinary Fascinated Orange Violet Luminous Sparkle Jelly Cloudy Kaleidoscope Red Green

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.”

Food Green Cooking Giants Culinary Casting Santa Santa Claus Slender Jolly Physique Connoisseur Pandas

Author:Craig Claiborne

“Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.”

Hours Half Too Much Food Huge Green Wine Vegetables Guests Dishes Salad

Author:Jeff Smith

“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”

“Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green trees, cool skies, and all, than to lose my images of suppers eaten on Sabbath evenings at the end of those walks.”

Giving Ends Loses Memories Walks Tree Sky Food Giving Up Eating Green Drinking Evening Remembered Delightful Sabbath Supper Eating And Drinking Green Trees

Book:The Promised Land

Source: The Promised Land

“Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!”

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Author:Chi Chi Rodriguez

“I won't eat anything green.”

Food Green Ice Cream

Author:Kurt Cobain

“Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal or having another acid flashback.”

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Author:David Henry

“Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.”

World Dream This World Food Green Cooking Culinary Yellow Magnificence Cabbage

Book:The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer: Collected Poems

Source: The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer: Collected Poems

“Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green turtle is from the mock turtle.”

Different Sometimes Challenges Food Green Genuine Soup Mock Turtles Stew Beverages Enticing

Author:Louis Pullig De Gouy