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Quotes About Pepper

He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Blac pepper them to death? Compliment them into a coma? Run them over with the dessert trolley?
~ Marian Keyes
My dear Pepper," said Ellery, "that is the curse of my composition. I'm always thinking. I'm pursued by what Byron in Childe Harold—you recall that magnificent first canto?—saw fit to call, 'The blight of life—the demon Thought.
~ Ellery Queen
On Christmas morning breakfast is always thick slices of ham, thick white toast, butter and pepper - oh and a glass of fizz!
~ John Torode
Shishito Pepper is a well-known pepper grown in Japan. Only one out of every ten is spicy, but there is no way to know which one is spicy beforehand.
~ Scott Matthews
Q: Why do fish live in salt water? A: Because pepper makes them sneeze.
~ Scott McNeely
What is all the racket about? Did you put red pepper on the lollypops?
~ Johnny Gruelle
A can of sardines cannot be packaged without a key on the outside and the occasional chili pepper on the inside.
~ Eric W. Bragg
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
I love hot sauce. It can't be hot enough for me.
~ Cheryl Hines
The day of Amma's arrest, the day it finally, completely unraveled, Curry and Eileen parked themselves on my couch, like concerned salt and pepper shakers.
~ Gillian Flynn
If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.
~ Gregory Maguire
I make gazpacho with a little bit of bread, so it's thicker, and I like it to be more tomato- and green pepper-based. Everyone has their own preferences, of course. But I think my gazpacho is the best.
~ Marc Gasol
I love a bit of arugula tossed in olive oil and pepper over it to just have something nice and fresh and green.
~ Antoni Porowski
Peppier n. The waiter at a fancy restaurant whose sole purpose seems to be walking around asking diners if they want ground pepper.
~ Steven Pinker
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
The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don't go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.
~ Johnny Cash
I looked at my spices again. Salt for protection, cinnamon to enhance psychic ability, and pepper to drive away evil. I figured I should start with the cinnamon. My first impulse was to snort it.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.
~ Bryan Q. Miller
The answer is a complicated, dramatic one. I can tell you at once that nothing you touch today will have more bloodshed, suffering, and woe attached to it than the innocuous twin pillars of your salt and pepper set.
~ Bill Bryson
I can tell you at once that nothing you touch today will have more bloodshed, suffering, and woe attached to it than the innocuous twin pillars of your salt and pepper set.
~ Bill Bryson
I think I added pepper too early in the cooking – did you know it loses its potency?
~ Freya North
When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
~ Andy Rooney
I always try and have a snack before an event - usually a small bowl of chickpea pasta, which is quick to make and delicious with just salt and pepper and a little bit of butter.
~ Nina Agdal
Slinky as a lynx, hot as pepper, cool as rain, dry as smoke. There's considerably more to her than staying sexy at 60.
~ Ros Asquith