Barbecue Quotes

• The question is not whether we will barbecue, but how we will barbecue.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

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• To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.

  Clement Freud

  Food, Cooking, Way

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• My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.

  Jamie Oliver

  Summer, Memories, Dad

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.

  Thomas Jones

  May, Comes And Goes

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• Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.

  Lyle Lovett

  Love, Beautiful, Sweet

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• The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Vigilance, Eternal, Eternal Vigilance

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• Backyard barbecues are really just about getting together. It's all about making people come over, having a really good time, talking about their lives, and sharing some great recipes.

  G. Garvin

  Talking, People, Together

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• There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself.

  Pippa Middleton

  Summer, Real, Party

  "Pippa Middleton's Book On Partying Is Not Very Good" by Christopher Howse, www.businessinsider.com. November 2, 2012.

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• Men like to barbecue. Men will cook if danger is involved.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Men, Cooking

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• Comfort is key for a barbecue.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Keys, Comfort

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

  John Shelton Reed

  Wine, Europe, Southern

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• I love barbecue, its my favorite thing to eat.

  David Nail

  Favorites Things, My Favorite

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• Marriage is like a barbecue. When you light a barbecue, it's very exciting to see the flames. That's lovely, but you have to wait until the flames have died down. Everything that you want from a barbecue happens on the hot embers. You can't cook on those flames.

  Howard Jacobson

  Light, Flames, Waiting

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• Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs it in some way.

  Steven Raichlen

  Fire, Cooking, Way

  Source: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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• The nourishment from barbecue is palatable.

  Millard Fillmore

  Nourishment

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• Some guys smoke. Some guys drink. Some guys chase women.
  I'm a big barbecue-sauce guy.

  Rick Majerus

  Guy, Sauce, Drink

  Rick Majerus, Gene Wojciechowski (2000). “My Life On a Napkin: Pillow Mints, Playground Dreams and Coaching the Runnin' Utes”, Hyperion

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• Even on the Serengeti, it ain't a barbecue if there ain't some kind of beer.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Drinking, Beer, Kind

  "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown", www.cnn.com. October 26, 2014.

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• If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant they are lying.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Stars, Lying, Four

  "'Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet': Padma's Passport to Flavors". Interview With Brad Thomas Parsons, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 27, 2007.

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• You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sauce, Wonder, Coming Back

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

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• You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dinosaurs, Knows

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• There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.

  Pat Conroy

  Ideas, South, No Idea

  "The Prince of Tides". Book by Pat Conroy, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.

  Gary Allan

  Guitar, Whiskey, Feds

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• Drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

  John Shelton Reed

  Hundred, Miles

  John Shelton Reed (2016). “Barbecue: a Savor the South® cookbook”, p.14, UNC Press Books

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• Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

  Carmen Electra

  Dance, Children, Love Is

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• Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

  John Shelton Reed

  North Carolina, Thirds, Rail

  John Shelton Reed, Dale Volberg Reed (2016). “Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue”, p.12, UNC Press Books

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