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The word indulgent has become a popular catchphrase for dishes we should not eat for health's sake. I never use it to describe food, only poor parenting. ↗

— Martha Hall Foose

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When the watermelons were as large as a child's head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush that no one could eat, not the children, not the cow. ↗

— Annie Proulx

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If God had created celery, it would only have two stalks, because that's the most that almost any recipe ever calls for. ↗

— skint foodie

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I am more of an herb guy than a spice guy. It comes back to a certain conservatism I have regarding food. The French are not big on spices; they use more herbs. I know the spices used in European cooking and use them in moderation. I am not going to serve a dish that is wildly nutmegged!" David Waltuck, Chanterelle NYC ↗

— Karen Page

#herbs #spices #food

A culinary triumph: the ingenious use of food as an offensive weapon. ↗

— James Hamilton-Paterson

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Besides its content and methods, the cuisine devised by squaws and hillbilly women, as well as slave women, had another thing in common, which was the belief that you made do with whatever you could lay hands on--pigs' entrails, turnip tops, cowpeas, terrapins, catfish--anything that didn't bite you first. ↗

— Shirley Abbott

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I'm not really a chicken-patty kinda girl," I said. ↗

— Rhoda Janzen

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Food didn't kill people, for God's sake, people killed people. With their harping, and criticizing, and careful living. ↗

— Nina Killham

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The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of a writer consists in giving them the faculty to adapt themselves to that - not very appetizing - food and thrive on it, sometimes for centuries. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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Pray for peace and grace and spiritual food, for wisdom and guidance, for all these are good, but don't forget the potatoes. ↗

— J.T. Peete

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