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“I am usually cooking at least four times a week if I am home. The easiest thing that I do a lot is gazpacho. It's simple and it tastes best if you let it sit over night in the refrigerator... I don't want anybody near me when I am cooking. If I am going to make a mistake, it has to be my fault.”

Ifs Want Home Night Simple Mistake Four Week Taste Cooking Faults Refrigerators

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.”

Natural Simple Attitude Style Taste Luxury Expensive Italian Good Taste

Author:Diego Della Valle

“Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.”

Humans Simple Economy Taste Office Aim Devotion Sacraments Prudence

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my taste in design and in clothes, and even affects the way I approach music. I'm all about keeping things simple, and minimal, but being able to convey something powerful through that approach.”

Thinking Way Philosophy Able Simple Powerful Style Design Taste Approach Clothes Ultimate Simplicity Sophistication Less Is More

Author:G-Eazy

“Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.”

Simple Dangerous Taste Eating Meat Dishes Feeding Sauce

Author:Pliny the Elder

“There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to have his strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He who plants a tree looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing could be less selfish than this.”

Thinking Looks Age Strong Simple Tree Son Sweet Taste Pure Plant Arguing Selfish Forests Generous Glorious Posterity Relish Cultivation Hardy Plant A Tree Vegetation

Author:Washington Irving

“You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.”

Source: Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.”

Should May Art Together Simple Pleasure Higher Please Taste Granted Daily Life Criticise Simple Pleasures Never Take For Granted

Book:Possession: A Romance

Source: Possession: A Romance

“What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of educational, religious, and cultural institutions that are predicated on corporate practices and goals. Everything we do to, with, and for our children is influenced by capitalist market conditions and the hegemonic interests of ruling corporate elites. In simple terms, we calculate what is best for our children by regarding them as investments and turning them into commodities.”

“When I develop my recipes I always look for ways to create what I call the Big Taste. While I enjoy eating simple grilled foods, what interests me when I cook are dishes with a taste that is fully dimensional.”

Way Looks Bigs Enjoy Interest Simple Food Taste Eating Cooks Dishes Recipes Cookery

Author:Paula Wolfert

“I have very simple tastes really. I like to ride my bicycle and I like to spend time upstate where it's quiet and I can take time to think and dream about new projects and possibilities.”

Thinking I Can Dream Simple Possibility Taste Quiet Projects Take Time End Times Spend Time Bicycle Time To Think New Projects

Author:Jacob Hashimoto

“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

“There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.”

Simple Tree Taste Pure Forests Cultivation

Author:Washington Irving