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Quotes About Spices

I love the food in Thailand because of the exotic spices they use. Their style of cooking is unique to their culture and always amazing.
~ Venus Williams
I have a great love for cuisine, so I'm always interested in local food, and there are so many interesting dishes, spices and ingredients in India.
~ Romain Grosjean
dilled green beans. Cut green beans to fit fairly tightly in the jars. Add one quarter of a teaspoon of crushed red pepper, one half teaspoon each of mustard seed and dill seed, and a very small clove of garlic to the jar with the beans. Heat five cups of vinegar, five cups of water, and half a cup of salt to the boiling point and pour over the beans. Adjust jar lids. Process in boiling water five minutes. Remove and cool. "Vinegar
~ Carolyn Brown
She starts out with pork-n-beans right out of the can, adds some kidney beans, a pound of bacon, and a pint of chopped-up ham, peppers, onions, and spicy barbecue sauce, but that's not her secret. It's a double shot of Jack Daniels and a tablespoon of red pepper flakes. That's her secret-and it makes the beans
~ Carolyn Brown
Hannah asked. "Six cans or three quarts of canned tomatoes, two onions the size of a tennis ball, sixteen ounces of jalapeno peppers or one pint if you've canned them yourself, a tablespoon and a half of garlic powder, a teaspoon and a half of both black pepper and salt, and some cilantro chopped fine if you want. Makes a gallon," Sue said. "I found
~ Carolyn Brown
It's hard to comprehend a hot brunch menu without a shakshuka.
~ Melissa Leong
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
~ Calvin Trillin
4 tablespoons powdered sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon ½ teaspoon nutmeg 1 cup cream In a small bowl, mix together powdered sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. In a separate bowl, whip cream with beaters or hand whisk while slowly adding dry ingredients. Whip until soft peaks form. (Don't over whip.) Makes 6 to 8 servings.
~ Camron Wright
She removed the salad plates and presented the garlic roasted crab with a flourish. Hot, pungent aromas steamed Lex's face as she leaned over the plate for a long, ecstatic breath. An exotic mix of spices melded with the warm richness of browned butter. Only a whiff of brine. The shells had a warm, healthy sunset color. Her mouth watered. She lifted the top shell and inhaled a sweet tang of the sea.
~ Camy Tang
I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.
~ Aarti Sequeira
Cooking turkey every year doesn't have to be monotonous - I want people to always mix it up using different spices and preparations.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
Turkish cuisine is, to my mind, one of the most exciting and accomplished in the world.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane dishes into a culinary masterpiece.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
Sorry, I'm not much of a cook.
~ Isaiah Mustafa
I love South Indian food.
~ Rhea Pillai
Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.
~ Paula Deen
Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Spices were certainly regarded as antidotes to earthly squalor in another, more mystical sense. They were thought to be splinters of paradise that had found their way into the ordinary world.
~ Tom Standage
LEE'S BREAD DIPPING SAUCE ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon dried rosemary 1 teaspoon dried basil 1 teaspoon dried parsley 1 teaspoon garlic powder ½ teaspoon salt ¼ cup really good quality extra-virgin olive oil Mix all the ingredients except the olive oil. Put in a shallow pan or bowl. Pour olive oil over the spices. Serve with Italian or French bread. (You can add more oil if needed.)
~ Carol J. Perry
fiber foods like flaxseed White flour Turmeric, cayenne, garlic Artificial coloring
~ Gerald M. Lemole
Eat for flow. Certain spices and herbs have medicinal effects on lymph flow because they contain compounds that help prevent
~ Gerald M. Lemole
I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
~ Aarti Sequeira
You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixture or you're adding herbs to it or Creole spice. Just watch out for the sodium content. That why I encourage you to make your own.
~ Emeril Lagasse
Italy is so influenced by others: couscous in the south, cinnamon in the north because of the Venetian spice trade - I just want to divulge as much information as I can.
~ Lidia Bastianich