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“A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.”

Food Cooking Oil Culinary Salt Dressings Peppers Vinegar Mustard Custard Oil And Vinegar

Author:Ogden Nash

“A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!”

Problem Easy Pieces Food Ought Cooking Rings Bread Culinary Strings Cake Sandwiches Onions One Piece Peppers Biting Hippo Mayonnaise Hippopotamus Onion Rings

Author:Shel Silverstein

“But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt... we dispatched it with great expedition.”

Source: MOBY-DICK (WITH NOTES)(BIOGRAPHY)(ILLUSTRATED): OR, THE WHALE

“In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper in his pantry. One way of saying that a man was poor was to say that he lacked pepper. The wealthy lacked pepper. The wealthy kept large stores of pepper in their houses, and let it be known that it was there: it was a guarantee of solvency.”

Men Way House Term Wealth Poor Known Land Food Amount Habit Cooking Stores One Way Guarantees Culinary Wealthy Estates Medieval Peppers Pantry Medieval Times

Author:Waverley Root

“The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.”

Quality Food Direct Size Restaurants Proportion Longevity Mills Peppers Disparity Food Safety

Author:Bryan Q. Miller

“Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.”

Should Wells Food Thrown Peppers Vinegar Eating Food Funny Food Food And Eating Cooking And Eating Cucumbers

Author:Samuel Johnson

“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

“Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.”

Virtue Food Cooking Culinary Quantity Peppers

Author:Plato