#salt

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. ↗

— John Berger

#becomes #connected #difficult #fond #glad

I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#any #apples #country #dictates #england

In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#after #almost #better #broken #crystal

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#american #cookery #his #humorist #intellectual

In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness. ↗

— Paula Deen

#bird #chance #chicken #cooking #dinner

I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#detox #except #finished #heavy #i

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#cause #earth #enterprise #grand #grand thing

Business is the salt of life. ↗

— Voltaire

#life #salt

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. ↗

— Rebecca West

#even #having #into #likes #nobody

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#art #harm #joke #raw #receive