Sauce Quotes - Page 7

• Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.

  Pliny the Elder

  Simple, Meat, Taste

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15Natural History, Book XI, Chapter LIII. Holland's translation, 1922.

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• The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses.... We agonize over a dinner menu, or have engine trouble on the way to work; and for seconds or minutes our cosmos shrinks to a miniscule volume of being, an epic of cheese sauces or tragedy of fanbelts.

  Robert Grudin

  Epic, Tragedy, Dinner

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tension translates to your guests. They'll have a much better time having chili and baked potatoes than they would if you did roast duck with a wild cherry sauce and then had to lie down and cry for a while.

  Nigella Lawson

  Lying, Ducks, Potatoes

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• Im a big fan of Caribbean food, Spanish food, Dominican food - like rice and beans. Hot sauce just adds a different layer of boom to the food, you feel me?

  Theophilus London

  Hot Sauce, Layers, Fans

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• Making pasta, cooking pasta and baking bread are two essential ideas to create a little bit of excitement, and you learn the basic, and then evolve it. Flavor the bread, flavor the pasta, go to a fish, go to a meat sauce and take it to another level.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Past, Ideas, Two

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

  George Eads

  Character, Sleep, Thinking

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• Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.

  Jennifer Esposito

  Mother, Mean, Italian

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

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• A lot of it comes from tiny things, like not eating barbecue sauce with my pizza at two in the morning. I think it's all a manifestation of being happy and wanting to treat myself well. The truth is, I'm not getting up an hour earlier and walking on a treadmill. I have the greatest workout partner in the world. And you don't need a gym membership for that kind of workout.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Workout, Morning, Thinking

  "A Mighty Heart: Jason Sudeikis Dishes on Love". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. July 17, 2013.

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• The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first course could include a dollop of Italian in 1492, but not Spanish spice or French sauce or too much Indian corn. Nothing too filling or fancy ahead of the turkey and pumpkin pie, just the way Grandma used to cook it.

  Tony Horwitz

  Grandma, Italian, Past

  Tony Horwitz (2008). “A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World”, Henry Holt and Company

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• Shrimps ought to stay small and curled up in their cocktail sauce, if you ask me.

  Aya Nakahara

  Shrimp, Cocktails, Ask Me

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• A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

  Edward Abbey

  Doubt, Meals, Hunger

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.140, University of Arizona Press

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• Kale is my best friend. I eat kale salad. I put kale in my smoothies, kale in my soup. Kale, kale, kale! I feel like Popeye. I love it. I definitely need variety or I get super bored, so I have to mix it up with different sauces and tahini or whatever.

  Alanis Morissette

  Kale, Bored, My Best Friend

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• SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Ninety Nine, Civilization

  Ambrose Bierce (1958). “The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce”, p.163, Prabhat Prakashan

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• On hitting a shaken opponent - His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.

  Vinny Paz

  Funny, Boxing, Legs

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• The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Blood, Looks, Kind

  "War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman".

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• A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.

  Fernand Point

  Food, Years, Practice

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• Want me to warm up the sauce?” “Do we do that? I mean, it’s in a jar, right? Can’t you just dump it over the pasta?” “Well, you can, but it tastes better if you warm it up.” “Oh.” Eve sighed. “This is complicated. No wonder I never cook.

  Rachel Caine

  Mean, Pasta, Want

  Rachel Caine (2007). “The Dead Girls' Dance: The Morganville Vampires”, p.37, Penguin

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• Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sorcery, Spoons, Flavor

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1143, Bantam

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• Xedrix-"No, our motto is 'everything tastes better with hot sauce.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hot, Taste, Motto

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• I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce (with Newman's Own), I begin to understand the romance of business.. the allure of being the biggest fish in the pond and the juice you get from beating out your competitors.

  Paul Newman

  Running, Business, Romance

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• We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain elusive in the blending, and with sauces whose ingredients are even now a secret.

  Macdonald Critchley

  Secret, Brain, Ingredients

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• Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.

  Alain Ducasse

  Ducks, Cooking, Adjectives

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• The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Wine, Men, Sight

  Jerome K. Jerome (1998). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.159, OUP Oxford

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• In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s indispensable.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Kitchen, Vices, Flavor

  "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.

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• The vulture Nekhbet, who'd one possessed my gran (long story); the crocodile Sobek, who'd tried to kill my cat (longer story); and the lion goddess Sekhmet, whom we'd once vanished in hot sauce ( don't even ask) - page 9

  Rick Riordan

  Cat, Long, Hot Sauce

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