#toe

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people. ↗

— Fannie Flagg

#character #enough #first #fried #green

Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the grocery store, avoiding the middle aisles full of processed and higher-priced foods. ↗

— Cat Cora

#avoiding #bag #chicken #foods #full

People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldn't matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. That's how I started tapping my toes. ↗

— Nomar Garciaparra

#being #feeling #fight #how #i

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#american #ballet #ballet dancer #body #dancer

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#always #certain #certain things #cradle #figure

You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#both #both sides #falling #inherent #into

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#body #century #crowd #cuts #distributes

While we’re at it, why don’t we add a third emotion to this list: lust. You are probably unaware that Linnaeus lumped the tomato into the same genus as the potato, a food with a reputation for its widespread availability and easy satisfaction of oral needs. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#lust #potatoes #tomatoes #food

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes. ↗

— Aaron Klug

#i #keeps #like #minds #teaching

According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, 30 percent less thiamin, 19 percent less niacin, and 62 percent less calcium than it did in the 1960s. But the modern tomato does shame it's counterpart in one area: It contains fourteen times as much sodium. ↗

— Barry Estabrook

#factory-farming #food #science #tomatoes #food