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Quotes About Taste

When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.
~ John Hodgman
Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.
~ Jerry Leiber
If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.
~ Ezra Koenig
No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.
~ Morley Safer
Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed.
~ Steve Albini
Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
~ John Ruskin
Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
~ E. F. Benson
The biggest hits - be they Coca-Cola or Doritos - owe their success to complex formulas that pique the taste buds enough to be alluring but don't have a distinct, overriding single flavor that tells the brain to stop eating.
~ Michael Moss
Every year, my father comes by and samples the chremslach - like quality control - and tells me how they taste just like his mother's.
~ Gil Marks
A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into a new place and they don't clean their machine properly or the water temperature isn't right, it tastes awful.
~ Andrew Bird
You know One Direction do a lot of up tempo songs, but when they did that Ed Sheeran song 'Little Things,' that was probably their biggest song off their last album, so it shows you that a ballad never goes out of fashion.
~ Shane Filan
To be sure, food keeps us alive, but that is only its smallest and most temporary work. Its eternal purpose is to furnish our sensibilities against the day when we shall sit down at the heavenly banquet and see how gracious the Lord is. Nourishment is necessary only for a while; what we shall need forever is taste.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
All salt and no finesse makes Jack a dull cook.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
For the second one, put down that I like food. As a child, I disliked fish, eggs, and oatmeal, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. My tastes are now more catholic, if not omnivorous. My children call me the walking garbage pail. (On my own terms, of course, I refuse the epithet: All that I take is stored lovingly in an ample home--it becomes not waste, but waist.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
~ Robert Frost
I loved kissing them on the mouth, the taste of their tongues. I think kissing is what separated us from the animals and makes us divine.
~ Robert Goolrick
Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers. If one wants Schnabel, they all want Schnabel, if one buys a Keith Haring, two hundred Keith Harings will be sold.
~ Robert Hughes
The onion is the truffle of the poor.
~ Robert J. Courtine
When the combined taste, smell, and textural stimuli reach the brain, they remain to be interpreted. Whether the overall sensation will be pleasant, repulsive, or somewhere in between will depend on individual physiological differences, on previous experience ("just like my mother used to make"), and on cultural habituation (haggis, anyone?).
~ Robert L. Wolke
The olfactory receptors in our noses can differentiate among thousands of different odors and contribute an estimated 80 percent of flavor.
~ Robert L. Wolke
Wine is bottled poetry.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
nothing can compete with the vulgarity of snobbish or bought correct taste.
~ Robert McAlmon