Quotes About Okra

Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.

I have a policy about that word soul. It is strictly prohibited except in cases of converstations having to do with okra recipes or Marvin Gaye.

I love fried okra. The fact that it's okra makes me feel like it's good for you - I forget the fact that it's fried.

Usually when I'm stressed, I'll eat everything not nailed down. Only small children and family pets are safe. And okra—I won't eat okra under any circumstances.

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

Among the Indian foods we commonly order are samosa (stuffed bread pocket), urid dal (bean curry), moong dal (lentil curry), pilao (a rice dish), chana masala (garbanzo beans), alu gobi (cauliflower), upma (wheat and vegetables), khichuri (lentils and rice), tel baigan (eggplant curry), and bhindi bhaji (okra and onions).

To this day the historical extent and importance of slavery in any given area in the Americas may very nearly be gauged by the extent and importance of okra, particularly by the degree of acceptance among whites.

In short, okra had come to be completely accepted by the Virginia gentry by the early nineteenth century.

Nineteenth-century Southern cookbooks almost invariably included receipts for okra.

The Mason-Dixon line can almost be said to be the Okra Line, that is, historically: As a rule, Southern writers gave receipts for okra, even when their works were published in the North. Northern writers did not, with the exception of those of Philadelphia, an anomaly explained by the early presence of West Indians who came to very nearly dominate the catering business in that city.

So few people eat okra (more radishes are grown in this country) that it never even makes it onto the lists of Top 10 hated foods

I hate milk. Coats your throat as bad as okra. Something just downright disgusting about it.