John Thorne Quotes

• It can only truly be Texas red if it walks the thin line just this side of indigestibility: Damning the mouth that eats it and defying the stomach to digest it, the ingredients are hardly willing to lie in the same pot together.

  John Thorne

  Lying, Texas, Together

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• Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage, the two tastes and textures meld together into the sort of subtle transcendental oneness that we once fantasized would be our experience when we finally found the ideal mate.

  John Thorne

  Two, Oneness, Apples

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• Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.

  John Thorne

  Substance, Half, States

  John Thorne, Matt Lewis Thorne (2011). “Pot on the Fire: Further Confessions of a Renegade Cook”, p.140, Macmillan

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• Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of 'Fannie Farmer' or 'The Joy of Cooking'.

  John Thorne

  Food, Other Cultures, Joy

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