Quotes About Taste

The Thai have a proverb, "Sweet sickens, bitter heals'.

The perfection of dress lies in the union of three requisites: in its being comfortable, inexpensive, and in good taste. It should not be so far removed from the prevailing mode as to excite attention, nor yet so far within the fashion as to imply a weak submission to it.

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

I don't like food. I LOVE it. If I don't love it, I don't swallow.

It's Chateau Haut-Bailly 2009. Retails for about two hundred

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste, but you probably don't want to see how it was made.

Style, like taste, is resistant to lucid definition; however, both, as living things should be, are subject to constant change.

You show me someone who'll eat lima beans without being at gunpoint, I'll show you a pervert!

The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint.

the cook's art is wasted if it is not consumed. Eating is not destruction; it is culmination.

Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.

It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer. Some choosy people say that a too cold beer doesn't taste good, but I couldn't disagree more. The first beer should be so cold you can't even taste it. The second one should be a little less chilled, but I want that first one to be like ice. I want it to be so cold my temples throb with pain. This is my own personal preference of course.

It's like doughnut holes. Whether you take a doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

Because brains packed with knowledge are yummy, that's why. They're nice and creamy. And sort of grainy at the same time.

The second whiskey is always my favorite. From the third on, it no longer has any taste. It's just something to pour into your stomach.

Whether you take a doughnut hole as blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'

I love deliberately badly written books.

You can't go wrong with relatively simple comfort food. It's also about ease. Some cook to impress. I cook for people to enjoy the food.

You can't go wrong with pizza, unless it's terrible pizza.

There is no right or wrong way to pair or prepare a dessert. Follow your instincts, edit, and taste-tweak-taste until you get it just right!

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.