Truffles Quotes

• In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Culinary, Fine, Diamond

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.74, Lulu.com

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• One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Art, Creativity

  "The Apollonian Clockwork". Book by Louis Andriessen, 1983.

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• Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Men, Aphrodisiac

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• Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Food, Smell, Hot

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1911). “The Fitz-Boodle papers, and other sketches”

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• Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Ideas, Erotic

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• If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Women, Food, Memorable

  "Close to Colette". Book by Maurice Goudeket, 1956.

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• You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

  Edward Albee

  Swine, Shows

  1962 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, act 2.

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• Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Taste, Certain, Knows

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• Sometimes love doesn't come to us. We have to go out hunting. It's like pigs looking for truffles. It's called dating.

  Patti LuPone

  Hunting, Pigs, Dating

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• The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humorous, Iraq

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• It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles.

  Lev L. Spiro

  Men, Pigs, Tricks

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• At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at a dinner where there was not a pièce truffée? Who has not felt his mouth water in hearing truffles a la provencale spoken of? In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Writing, Water

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• The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Men, Cooking

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2012). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Thinking, Toadstools

  Mark Twain (2015). “Pudd'nhead Wilson”, p.30, Xist Publishing

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• An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Artist, Pigs

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• Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

  Plutarch

  Food, Dark, Clouds

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• I enjoyed retirement the right way linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.

  Craig Kilborn

  Retirement, Wine, Red

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• Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

  John Evelyn

  Food, Nuts, Earth

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• Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Food, Jewels, Cooking

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• All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.

  Sybille Bedford

  Food, Eggs, Miraculous

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• It is important to work with purveyors who share our high standards and are discriminating about the products they supply. This has been the foundation of a long and loyal relationship with Gourmet Attitude, a supplier that has helped us offer our guests some of the highest quality imported truffles available in the U.S.

  David Breeden

  Attitude, Long, Important

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• A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.

  Carol Tavris

  Sports, Baseball, Team

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• A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.

  Bill Buford

  Food, June, July

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• La truffe n'est point un aphrodisiaque positif; mais elle peut, en certaines occasions, rendre les femmes plus tendres et les hommes plus aimables. The truffle is not a true aphrodisiac; but in certain circumstances it can make women more affectionate and men more attentive.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Aphrodisiac, Femme

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• I love black truffles. I love white truffles.

  Fergie

  White, Black

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