Quotes About Taste

Texas barbecue is so good, you don't need barbecue sauce, and some places don't bother to serve it, believing that it distracts from the exquisite flavors.

Every beauty -- whether of sight, sound, or taste -- has a dimension of the metaphysical. Beauty...moves us so powerfully by making us present at the creation of a world, bringing us into existence.

The taste of water, the essential, the pure, the necessary, when you are thirsty, first drunk ardently, and then slowly, is the taste of truth itself.

A dinner made by a great cook is a vision of the world to come.

A beer doesn't have to be difficult to acquire, but damned if that doesn't make everything taste better.

If he was in the mood to admire someone, why had he not gone to someone genuinely pretty and attractive? She knew she was plain all right: she knew it with such depth and frankness that she could positively find it in her heart to despise his taste! And if she despised his taste, she must despise the whole situation of which she formed a part. He had set in motion a degrading event.

Barbarian that I am, I had eaten all of it. It had tasted quite nice too. Still, I took note of this fact and resigned myself to throw away half of a perfectly good cheese if it was set in front of me. Such is the price of civilization.

Bitter." "That's how you know it's real medicine," I said. "If it tasted good it would be candy." "Isn't that the way of the world?" she said. "We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.

Don't put beets in the soup, Reshi. They're foul.

Apparently the soft cheese I'd been served possessed a rind.A rind any civilized person would have recognized as inedible and meant to be pared away. Barbarian that I am,I had eaten all of it.It had tasted quite nice too. Still,I took not of this and resigned myself to throw away half of a perfectly good cheese if it was set in front of me. Such is the price of civilization.

Sí, es como la vida misma- replicó ella-. Nos gustan las cosas dulces, pero necesitamos las amargas.

Less is More. It's the Chocolate Chip in your cookie. Yes, it's delicious. But you can't have a cookie that's *all* chocolate chip. It just doesn't work.

That's how you know it's real medicine," I said. "If it tasted good it would be candy.

Es amarga. —Así sabes que es una medicina —dije—. Si tuviera buen sabor, sería un caramelo. —Sí, es como la vida misma —replicó ella—. Nos gustan las cosas dulces, pero necesitamos las amargas.

It tastes like wet mittens.

a good wine allows clarity and focus, while still allowing a bit of comforting coloration of the memory.

Don't put beets in the soup, Reshi," Bast said. "They're foul.

Es como la vida misma [...]. Nos gustan las cosas dulces, pero necesitamos las amargas.

can't tell salt from cyanide by tasting it.

Quizá faltan unas gotas de limón pensó, pero esto ya era casi frívola glotonería, porque cuando bebía después de cada bocado un pequeño sorbo de vino tinto de la botella y se lo paseaba por la lengua y entre los dientes, el regusto algo metálico del pescado se mezclaba con el fuerte y ácido perfume del vino de un modo tan convincente, que Jonathan estaba seguro de no haber comido en toda su vida mejor que ahora, en este momento.

Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.

And it isn't a mistake in taste, like believing that the Matrix sequels were as good as the original.

Some very common foods and drinks are aversive. Few people enjoy, at first, coffee, beer, tobacco, or chili pepper. Pleasure from pain is uniquely human. No other animal willingly eats such foods when there are alternatives. Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans—language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.

Taste is the best judge, but it is rare. Art is accessible only to a very small number of individuals.