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• I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.

  Erma Bombeck

  Tables, Littles, Jars

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• This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Cooking, Roaches, Taverns

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads”, p.557

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• Pounding fragrant things - particularly garlic, basil, parsley - is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries, coriander seeds and the grilled fruits of the chilli pepper. Pounding these things produces an alteration in one's being - from sighing with fatigue to inhaling with pleasure. The cheering effects of herbs and alliums cannot be too often reiterated. Virgil's appetite was probably improved equally by pounding garlic as by eating it.

  Patience Gray

  Cheer, Food, Vegetables

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• The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The next best vegetable is the jalapeno pepper. It has the virtue of turning salads into practical jokes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Vegetables, Stupidity, Cooking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning

  Nellie Bly

  Two, Water, Trying

  Nellie Bly (2015). “10 Days in a Madhouse (Annotated)”, p.66, Golgotha Press

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• Every time a police agency pepper-sprays or uses pain-compliance holds against our people, their cars should burn.

  Rod Coronado

  Pain, Animal, Agency

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• Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Puff, Flattery, Praise

  Oliver Goldsmith (1839). “Poetical Works”, p.145

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• In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

  Usher

  Hair, Salt, Becoming

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• Mr. Pibb is a poor imitation of Dr. Pepper. Dude didn't even get his degree.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Degrees

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• President Obama had lunch with Republican leaders at the White House today and had to do without salt, pepper and butter. Not for dietary reasons. The Republicans refused to pass anything.

  Jay Leno

  Lunch, White, House

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• I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

  Marc Newson

  Years, Europe, Three

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• I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril's Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Baby, Kids, Thinking

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• You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixture or you're adding herbs to it or Creole spice. Just watch out for the sodium content. That why I encourage you to make your own.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Together, Sodium, Watches

  "Emeril on eating smart and efficient". ESPNHS Interview, www.espn.com. February 1, 2012.

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• A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Mushrooms, Two

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• The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.

  Anais Nin

  Strong, Cooking, Black

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• There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.

  Alice Hoffman

  Falling In Love, Garden, Rose

  Alice Hoffman (1996). “Practical magic”, Berkley

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• We ran, plowing through another pile of peppers. [No, I didn't pick a peck of them, Sadie - just shut up.]

  Rick Riordan

  Plowing, Shut Up, Sadie

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in their dish.

  Adam Rex

  Stars, Character, Kids

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• Fix yourself something to drink," she said. "I don't have any Mr. Pepper." "You mean Dr. Pepper?" "For the love of God!" She exploded. "People expect everything from a psychic! 'Doctor,' 'mister,' I was close enough. I didn't call it 'Mrs. Salt,' did I?

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Mean, Doctors, Psychics

  Elizabeth Chandler (2010). “The Back Door of Midnight”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Suffering, Going Away, Eating

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• Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Writing, Men, White Man

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• I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent of peppers roasting over a fire, or what. I do know that flavors work their own ways under the skin, into the heart of longing. Where my kids are concerned I find myself hoping for the simplest things: that if someday they crave orchards where their kids can climb into the branches and steal apples, the world will have trees enough with arms to receive them.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Friday, Growing Up, Kids

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• The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Fire, Cooking, West

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Rivers of London”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• Just in case you get any ideas, know that I’ll be sleeping with a can of Mace in one hand and pepper spray in the other.” - Katie Jorlan's expression turned mocking. “Just in case you get any ideas, know that I’ll be sleeping with a feather in one hand and massage oil in the other.

  Gena Showalter

  Sleep, Expression, Hands

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• Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.

  George Orwell

  Drinking, Beer, Drunk

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “Smothered under journalism: 1946”

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