393 Quotes About Taste
- Author John Davies of Hereford
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This is the body's nurse; but since man's witFound the art of cookery, to delight his sense,More bodies are consumed and kill'd with itThan with the sword, famine, or pestilence.
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- Author Lydia Davis
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Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.
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- Author Charles Lamb
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I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, 'Whether supposing that the flavour of a big who obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem extremem) superadded a pleasure upon the palate of a man more intense than any possible suffering we can conceive in the animal, is man justified in using that method of putting an animal to death?' I forget the decision.
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- Author Nigel Slater
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It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.
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- Author Lynn Hoffman
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In an age when mass pleasures like television are becoming more feeble and homogeneous, the very act of discrimination becomes a form of protest. At a time when mass marketing of food produces a product so disgusting that it has to be wrapped in distracting gimmicks to be sold, the mere fact of paying attention to what you eat and drink and telling the truth about taste is a revolutionary act.
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- Author Mango Wodzak
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No foods taste better than the one’s you have helped grow with your own efforts!
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- Author Vijaya Gowrisankar
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Your exuberance, passion, mesmerizing voice, animated actions, and eyes full of dreamscaptured my attentionso completely, that I didn't feel the bitter taste of coffee
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- Author Bee Wilson
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Our tastes are learned in the context of immense social influences, whether from our family, our friends, or the cheery font on a bottle of soda.
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