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Quotes About Spices

My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet another jar of mace or chili powder rather than having to hunt down its last incarnation.
~ Janet Fitch
Glogg is a Scandinavian mulled wine, sweetened with honey, almonds, raisins and spices. Its name suits its purpose so beautifully.
~ Susie Dent
I love cooking fajitas. I'm from Texas, and it's not a difficult thing to do, but a lot of people burn the chicken.
~ Vinnie Paul
I like Thai food, Jamaican stews with yam, pumpkin and sweet potato.
~ Chris Smalling
In the past few years, we've been doing amazing stuff with desserts. Pastry chefs have been using herbs and spices in their desserts. So vanilla cake doesn't have to be just vanilla, it can have a little thyme. Or you could have a custard with a little lavender in it, which is just amazing.
~ Ron Ben-Israel
The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.
~ Anais Nin
I use ginger like garlic. I love it for steaming fish and making barbecue sauces or roasted chicken.
~ Tom Douglas
Even for digestion, I boil aijwain, jeera, ginger and lemon in water and drink it all day.
~ Rhea Chakraborty
I usually always cook all the chutneys that I serve in the winter.
~ Maneet Chauhan
All those spices and herbs in your spice rack can do more than provide calorie-free, natural flavorings to enhance and make food delicious. They're also an incredible source of antioxidants and help rev up your metabolism and improve your health at the same time.
~ Suzanne Somers
Hey, Dad, you've got to taste what we just did. It's actually good. (Omari) That is good. What did you two do? (Devyn) No idea. We just added spices until it didn't suck anymore. (Omari)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
She opened the tin to show Candace the dark red strands, a fortune in her palm, dearer than this much caviar, this many shaved truffles; it was for spices like this that Columbus had set out in his ship. "Each strand is handpicked from the center of a crocus flower that blooms two weeks of the year.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Además de la ropa cara, los cigarrillos ingleses, los objetos de plata y de cuero, los analgésicos para el dolor de cabeza, la vida incierta y las mujeres hermosas, a Lorenzo Falcó le gustaban las cosas salpimentadas con detalles. Con solera.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
All they could do was take us to the bazaar to buy essentials. Here we were too transfixed to misbehave. There were lights and glitter and toys—toys everywhere—and stalls pungent with blood and spices, the cackle of animals, and the plump promises of pastries.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I believe in the magic of preparation. You can make just about any foods taste wonderful by adding herbs and spices. Experiment with garlic, cilantro, basil and other fresh herbs on vegetables to make them taste great.
~ Jorge Cruise
I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored.
~ Paul Lynde
In the Punjab, meat or no meat, you're almost guaranteed a free-for-all of intense colors, flavors, and spices.
~ Anthony Bourdain
That dried sawdust they sell in the cute little cans at the supermarket? You can throw that, along with the spice rack, right in the garbage.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I will go on my horse and bring you cinnamon and thyme, emeralds and clove, cloth of gold and cabbages. And rhubarb.
~ Shirley Jackson
I am Indian and a chef with Indian heritage.
~ Maneet Chauhan
I have encouraged my kids to eat well from day one. I add flavor - herbs and spices - to everything because I don't want them getting used to starchy, bland food. I also want them to experiment - they don't have to love everything, but they do have to try it.
~ Alison Sweeney
And all my kisses on thy balmy lips as sweet, As are the breezes breath'd amidst the groves Of ripening spices on the height of day: As vigorous too.
~ behn aphra ii
I'm a huge fan of curries, chillies and stews and it is still possible to lose weight and eat hearty meals.
~ Gregg Wallace
I'm always cooking big veggie curries for friends with tons of spices, coconut milk, chilli - I'll saute potatoes in the spices, then cook them with all the flavours and stir in some chickpeas and spinach at the end before serving it on a bed of sesame brown rice. It's easy to do and tastes amazing!
~ Ella Woodward