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“I'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.”

Wells Done Bigs Difficult Sea Lovers Cooking Fishes Mediums Meat Temperature Bass Protein Well Done Stunning Scallops

Author:Gordon Ramsay

“...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.”

Way Whole Causes Moral Sea Food Cooking Fishes Lifestyle Variety Realms Culinary Prime Stomach Decline Dishes Adaptation Extravagant Tasty Shellfish

Author:Pliny the Elder

“Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence.”

Sun Clear Cutting Sea Food Huge Essence Cooking Surface Setting Bitter Settings Rising Culinary Smooth Lemons Illuminating Membranes

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.”

Sea Food Cooking Culinary Sailor

Author:Janet Flanner

“The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.”

Real Sea Food Cooking South Native Culinary

Author:Victor Hugo

“Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war as well?...It would have been so much nicer just to sail about, with here and there a port and a bit of land to stretch one's legs on, buy a few books and get a change of cooking for a while.”

Wells Has Beens Book War Used Bits Interest Sun Sea Land Trade Cooking Legs Sail Finest Here And There Port

Book:Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.”

Sea Childhood Tradition Cooking Storm Aesthetics

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.”

Kind Sea Food Trust Rivers Cooking Sticks Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Culinary Seafood Eyeballs Fins

Author:Dave Barry

“Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.”

Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”

Source: The Hemingway Collection