Quotes About Delicacy

I can cook a five-course meal.

I love seafood.

I'm a big seafood fan.

My palate is very sensitive with food.

The combination of random branching and orderly underlying lattice creates the exquisite complexity of the snowflake, poised on the brink of chaos and minutely sensitive to tiny variations in the temperature and humidity of the air.

I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits....

Write it down. Whatever it is, write it down. Chip in into marble. Type it into Microsoft Word. Spell it out in seaweeds on the shore. We are each of us an endangered species, delicate as unicorns.

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

Nothing could be more French than pastry.

Those Frenchies may know their pastry, but you can't beat a bit of British cheese.

Tripes, poumons, coeur de porc, etc., tout cela cuit à la vapeur avec du vin de riz.

To all light things I compared her: to a snowflake, a feather

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

I'm very much a person who walks on egg shells.

Foie gras is a breeze to cook, something that can't go wrong.

To me, nothing says summer like enjoying a lobster roll at my favorite spots in the Hamptons.

Most people do not know at all how beautiful the world is and how much magnificence is revealed in the tiniest things, in some flower, in a stone, in tree bark, or in a birch leaf. (Letters on Life)

I have a weakness for fresh eggs.

Everything is fragile; everything is breaking.

Il migliore amico mi ha risposto che non sarebbe andato a trovare Tijo in ospedale; preferiva conservare di lui l'immagine di una "vitalità indistruttibile". Delicatezza disgustosa, che abbandona un uomo alla propria agonia. Odio gli amici in spirito. Mi piacciono solo gli amici in carne e ossa.

In 1876 at the World's Fair in Philadelphia, a delicacy called a banana, originally a crop of the Malay Islands, made its public debut in the United States, selling for a dime apiece and wrapped in tinfoil to prevent its phallic shape from offending the crowd's Victorian sensibilities. How else to eat one but with a fork and knife?

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

search of traces of the ancient past—and fine dark chocolate.