Quotes About Taste

Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your taste.

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

and the bakers went south to Rome because Romans, it turned out, loved German bread.

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.

George Bernard Shaw once said, "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Uncle sipped some tea. "Ugh! This tea is nothing more than hot leaf juice!" "Uncle, that's what all tea is," I pointed out. "How could a member of my own family say something so horrible?" Uncle said.

Who uses crunchy peanut butter?" he asked the room. "You might as well eat squirrel shit.

Old tricky tequila, which tastes to me like a mix of tears and spit.

Murdoch is a brilliant and manipulative bastard; Evans is a brilliant and easily manipulated man of taste and honor.

What about 101 Noodle Express?" This was a favorite dumpling place in Arcadia. Their dumplings were rustic and burly---leek and pork, pumpkin and pork, shrimp and bok choy---and their signature dish, a beef roll, was another life-shifting taste experience: long-stewed beef rolled in a crisp and chewy savory pancake with sweet hoisin sauce and a green chili relish.

If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

If music modulates our feelings, so does food; and all the fine cuisines of the world are based on that knowledge. The

As long as one strives to become a gourmet or a connoisseur of wines because it is the "in" thing to do, striving to master an externally imposed challenge, then taste may easily turn sour. But a cultivated palate provides many opportunities for flow if one approaches eating—and cooking—in a spirit of adventure and curiosity, exploring the potentials of food for the sake of the experience rather than as a showcase for one's expertise.

Developing a discriminating palate, like any other skill, requires the investment of psychic energy. But the energy invested is returned many times over in a more complex experience. The

But a cultivated palate provides many opportunities for flow if one approaches eating—and cooking—in a spirit of adventure and curiosity, exploring the potentials of food for the sake of the experience rather than as a showcase for one's expertise. The

When we choose a goal and invest ourselves in it to the limits of our concentration, whatever we do will be enjoyable. And once we have tasted this joy, we will redouble our efforts to taste it again.

Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.

It's not that you don't understand, it's that you don't like it.

Network executives usually have bad taste. It's either just a reflection of what market research tells them that normal people are into, or whatever their adolescent children are obsessed with. I have so often been on the receiving end of whatever powerful network executive's children are watching that week. That

I made orange juice from concentrate and showed her the trick of squeezing the juice of one real orange into it. It removes the taste of being frozen. She marveled at this, and I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

Expose them {your kids} to the widest variety of vegetables and fruits, showing them how good things can be in season. Tasteless fruits and vegetables won't win them over for life.