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Quotes About Tasting

Samantha, cooking isn't about writing down. It's about tasting. Feeling. Touching. Smelling.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Tasting," she says, removing my pen and paper from my hands. "Not writing. You need to use your senses. Your instincts.
~ Sophie Kinsella
A winetaster carries his tasting equipment with him wherever he goes, but it is at home that it is most finely tuned.
~ Emile Peynaud
There is blood in my mouth, warm and tasting of iron.
~ Jojo Moyes
Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.
~ William Shatner
All are wines Wagner himself enjoys. At least one is under $10 and two are over $50. "Over the past eighteen years, every time," he told me, "the least expensive wine averages the highest ranking, and the most expensive two finish at the bottom." In 2011, a Gallo cabernet scored the highest average rating, and a Chateau Gruaud Larose (which retails from between $60 and $70) took the bottom
~ Mary Roach
As an inveterate lover of mystery, cracking the code of a writer's true identity has the same effect, for me, as tasting forbidden fruit.
~ Sarah Weinman
Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon
~ Stuart Woods
I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale.
~ Sue Grafton
A strange lightness enveloped her as she drove to her apartment, past the shady village green, the trendy shops and cafés and galleries and tasting rooms. Her favorite spot in town was the White Rabbit Bookstore with a sign over the door----FEED YOUR HEAD.
~ Susan Wiggs
I can taste and everything. I can taste every little ingredient in food.
~ Perrie Edwards
Louis Latour Pinot Noir 2009.
~ Blair Howard
Waiting patiently is suffering through the present moment, tasting it to the fullest in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
I ate it all, washed down by a good English beer, except for the tongue, although I eyed even that. After all, it was just beef, right? But I couldn't do it. Tasting something that might be tasting me back freaked me out.
~ Karen Chance
Devote a year to sampling tea foods and condiments from around the world
~ Kate Spade
Being a great baker and pastry chef requires the upmost open mind. I try every dessert that comes my way!
~ Christina Tosi
I'm meticulous about tasting everything at the restaurant, so I taste all the preparations before lunch and dinner. That means tasting around 50 dishes twice. There are times when I think I can't taste another thing.
~ Rick Bayless
I love eating out. I don't deny that. But I don't want 12 or 15 courses because the chef wants me to taste this or taste that. I just want to be able to decide.
~ Gordon Ramsay
Pain was a difficult concept to conjure in memory, Hoop had said. Like tasting the best cake ever. Such thoughts only really meant anything when the tasting-or the pain- was happening.
~ Tim Lebbon
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
~ George Herbert
What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.
~ Rumi
Name it after that blind monk—what was his name?" "Dom Pérignon, who said drinking champagne is like tasting the stars.
~ Tasha Alexander
The wineries attract tourists who like to talk about wine. I mean, do I talk about beer? It's beer. Drink it and shut up.
~ Nelson DeMille
He held up his glass to the light, then gave it a sniff. 'It's got peach, oak, vanilla, lots of vanilla, Sue Ellen loves her vanilla...
~ Nina Killham