Best food & vegetables Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.”

Moving Simple Too Much Food Keys Messages Cooking Fruit Complicated Culinary Vegetables Junk Junk Food Fruits And Vegetables

Author:Marion Nestle

“Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked a point vegetables, sprinkle a handful of chopped parsley over all, and then, like a proficient striptease artist, remove the apron, allowing it to fall to the floor with a shake of her hips.”

Artist Fall Food Empty Cooking Hips Meat Shakes Remove Culinary Allowing Vegetables Handful Toss Stoves Sprinkles Aprons Parsley

Author:Bert Greene

“Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.”

Food Cooking Dinner Culinary Vegetables Artichokes

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.”

Whole Home Saws Food Cooking Mess Culinary Vegetables Captains Soup Helmet Horseback Cavalry

Book:Four Comedies: Lysistrata; The Acharnians; The Congresswomen, Translated by Douglass Parker. The Frogs, Translated by Richmond Lattimore

Source: Four Comedies: Lysistrata; The Acharnians; The Congresswomen, Translated by Douglass Parker. The Frogs, Translated by Richmond Lattimore

“In America, even your menus have the gift of language.... The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned to perfection and served in a creamy nest of mashed farm potatoes and strictly fresh garden vegetables. Of course, what you get is cole slaw and a slab of meat, but that doesn't matter because the menu has already started your juices going. Oh, those menus. In America, they are poetry.”

Matter America Courses Language Rich Food Garden Perfection Cooking Meat Culinary Farms Vegetables Chef Potatoes Juice Nests Menus Vienna Hearty Slabs

Author:Laurie Lee

“I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.”

Young Food Skins Cooking Knives Vegetables Slim Stripping Parsnips

Author:Stevie Smith

“It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.”

“The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions.”

Firsts Heart Enough Food Adventure Scene Skins Cooking Giants Kitchen Culinary Vegetables Flavor Beard Onions Hearty Fours Culinary Love

Book:Delights and Prejudices

Source: Delights and Prejudices

“Pray how does your asparagus perform?”

Doe Food Praying Cooking Culinary Vegetables Asparagus

Book:The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784

Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784

“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

“Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.”

People Thinking Men Way Food Bears Eating Cooking Productions Meals Culinary Vegetables Construction Tigers Prey Sharks Beef Digestion Grumbling Mutton

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“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

“Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.”

Purpose Interesting Cutting Food Cooking Meat Culinary Vegetables Food And Eating American Food

Book:Metropolitan Life/Social Studies

Source: Metropolitan Life/Social Studies

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.”

Life Religion Food Rose Smell Libertarian Vegetables Cynical Idealism Soup Noticing Idealist Cuisine Cynic Cabbage Soup Kitchens

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.”

People Humor Funny History Laughing Cry Food Laughter Vegetables Cowboy Funny Inspirational Making People Laugh Onions Cabbage Funny Food Vegetable Garden Cowboy Wisdom

Author:Will Rogers

“Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.”

Men Wise Mankind Food Garden Familiar Kitchen Vegetables Cabbage Vegetable Garden

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.”

Looks Littles Literature Grows Food Garden Vegetables Agriculture Vegetable Garden

Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen

“It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.”

“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”

“Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.”

Men Has Beens Night Existence Food Months Eating Cooking Deny Indian Restaurants Culinary Vegetables Playwright Dining Ethos Curry Asparagus

Author:Peter Ustinov

“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”

“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.”

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”

“The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.”

Enough Running Passion Fire Food Serious Cold Cooking Intense Culinary Vegetables Discontent Tomatoes Frivolity Beets Radishes

Book:Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.”

Firsts Food Months Fruit Chickens Vegetarian Nuts Vegetables Requirements Tuesday Tomatoes Cucumbers Avocados

Book:Shades of Grey

Source: Shades of Grey

“I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.”

Source: Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches

“The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.”

Men Fields Food Relation Cooking Delight Woods Ministers Culinary Vegetables Suggestions Not Alone Occult Food And Drink Culinary Love

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.”

Source: The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig

“If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.”

Ifs Situation Food Eating Improvement Vegetables Adulthood Dessert

Author:Lisa Alther

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

“The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.”

Firsts Order Food Battle Army Cooking Dinner Pleasant Culinary Vegetables Participants Formidable

Author:Plutarch

“Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!”

Knows Doubt Food Cooking Plant Culinary Vegetables Funny Inspirational Radishes

Book:The Fantasticks

Source: The Fantasticks

“Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.”

Funny Food Cooking Naked Culinary Vegetables Acceptable Easter Carrots Funny Food Fresh Food Delicious Food

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.”

Food Cooking Cooks Culinary Strongest Allies Vegetables Stoves Eggplant

Author:Laurie Colwin

“In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.”

Church Food Cold Hot Tables Rose West South East Enormous Vegetables Quarters Dishes Centre Sauce Ham Pastries Artichokes Hot Sauce

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.”

People Ifs Waiting Difficult Cases Food Advantage Cooking Prepared Culinary Occupation Satisfying Vegetables Disposition Delicious Beans Ifs And Punctual Posse

Author:Andre Simon

“I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.”

Thinking Bigs Given Can Do Company Food Cooking Bread Developing Culinary Vegetables Onions

Author:Robert Orben

“Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence reduces the rarest delicacy to hopeless insipidity, and dinner to despair.”

Pleasure Food Color Despair Cooking Dinner Absence Kitchen Culinary Hopeless Vegetables Dishes Modest Onions Enchantment Delicacy

Author:Elizabeth Robins Pennell

“A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.”

Men Food Cooking Culinary Vegetables Basil

Author:Thomas More

“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

“I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.”

Food Fruit Variety Iron Vegetables Protein Beef

Author:Sasha Cohen

“This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke.”

Source: Jane Grigson's Fruit Book

“Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.”

Needs Years Problem House Grows Easy Sin Food Source Originals Cooking Smell Be Good Improvement Ruins Meals Culinary Pot Vegetables Wet Nasty Foul Original Sin Cabbage Greenery

Book:Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book

Source: Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book

“Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can. when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the colour and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favour of dirt.”

Made Courses Food Color Argument Fruit Favors Fats Brown Chocolate Substitutes Vegetables Sugar Dirt Consistency Adequate Powder Nutrients Calcium Funny Chocolate Evergreens Phosphorus

Author:Sandra Boynton

“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”

Source: Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book

“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

“In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables; and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.”

Said Soul Beautiful Food Essence Cooking Culinary Vegetables Onions Wrapping Satin

Author:Charles Dudley Warner

“Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters.”

Together Nations Race Food Eating Flesh Ministers Vegetarian Vegetables Healthy Eating Presbyterians

Author:Sylvester Graham

“Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad, but bread is king.”

Country Food Kings Tables Cooking Court Bread Meat Culinary Surround Vegetables Soup Salad

Author:Louis Bromfield

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