3,214 Quotes About Food

  • Author Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
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    They had nationalities even: Thai eggplant, Chinese eggplant, Italian eggplant. The United Nations of eggplants terrified me because I knew the oblong purple vegetable as baingan, brinjal in English, and I could cook it in five different ways. Would this exotic brinjal still yield to my hands?

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  • Author Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
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    I could travel back in time, way back, when at a home with too many mouths to feed, love was a constant accompaniment to each spare meal. ….With my food, I could recall the person I used to be. Before everything changed.

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  • Author Naomi Oreskes
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    ...and that greater use of pesticides was the key to wiping out world hunger (although most social scientist disagree, pointing out that there is plenty of food in the world; the problem we face is one of unequal distribution.)

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  • Author Janet Clarkson
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    A pie is only as good as its pastry, and one of the delights of a good pie is the contrast in texture between the crisp pastry and the filling - whatever it might be. In a perfect pie, each component is independently perfect - the mouthfeel of the pastry (buttery, flaky, crumbly) and the mouthfeel of the filling (rich, unctuous, tender, sticky, crunchy, etc.); and the whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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