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Quotes About Taste

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.
~ Paul Graham
Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!
~ Paul Lynde
When I bucked and shot myself, hearing him greedily drink and swallow, I knew I had tasted life at last—and wouldn't end up sobbing in a wheelchair after all.
~ Paul Monette
You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.
~ Paul Prudhomme
Even if it is true that the average man seems most comfortable with the commonplace and familiar, it is equally true that catering to bad taste, which we so readily attribute to the average reader, merely perpetuates that mediocrity and denies the reader one of the most easily accessible means for esthetic development and eventual enjoyment.
~ Paul Rand
The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.
~ Unknown
Taste is made of a thousand distastes
~ Paul Valery
I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.
~ Paula Deen
Bein' rich is having leftovers. Good leftovers make yo' tongue fly outta yo' mouth and smack yo' brains out.
~ Paula Deen
If I had known how good cooked meat tastes, I would have breathed my fire on all those pigs before I ate them.
~ Unknown
There's no way I could make the case that Animal House is a better picture than Heaven Can Wait , yet on some sort of emotional-aesthetic level I prefer it.
~ Pauline Kael
These three things:the smell of Shepelevo, the smell of the Metro and the taste of creme brulee ice cream. The essence of my childhood in Russia.
~ Paullina Simons
Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.
~ Peg Bracken
Bad taste is a virus that gains strength as it spreads. People want to imitate it and outdo it.
~ Peggy Noonan
And now I want to get yesterday down while I still have the awful taste of it
~ Penelope Lively
Happy people make good food and fashion.
~ Peter Cameron
You use a plate; you wash the plate. The same is true with ice trays, right? Every time you dump out the cubes you wash the tray before refilling. Some refrigeration experts claim ice tastes better if you wash those trays less frequently because minerals from the water build up in the trays and make the ice taste better. So stop washing them every time you empty them.
~ Unknown
Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.
~ Peter Kay
The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.
~ Numbers 11:8
“My father has brought trouble to the land,” Jonathan replied. “Just look at how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.
~ 1 Samuel 14:29
And they poured it out for the men to eat, but when they tasted the stew they cried out, “There is death in the pot, O man of God!” And they could not eat it.
~ 2 Kings 4:40
Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?
~ Job 6:6
Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?
~ Job 12:11
For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
~ Job 34:3