Quotes About Palate

Just because it tastes good in Hong Kong, it doesn't necessarily translate elsewhere.

Woman, did you just give twelve-year-old cheddar to the dog?" "Yep. She has a very refined cheese palate." "Good to know." I cut off a slice for myself, savoring the sharpness and the little salty crystals that pop on my tongue before the cheese melts into savory creaminess.

The palate of taste is limited to the five or six primary colors that the tongue can recognize; olfaction, by comparison, is seemingly limitless in the shadings and combinations it can register and archive—and retronasal olfaction can perceive aromas to which even the nose is blind.

I love foods that start in my cheeks and then vibrate up.

As a rule, you knew it was time to eat when you could hear potatoes exploding in the oven. Happily, all this suited my father. His palate only responded to two tastes - burned and ice cream - so everything suited him so long as it was sufficiently dark and not startlingly flavorful. Theirs truly was a marriage made in heaven, for no one could burn food like my mother or eat it like my Dad.

It takes a special kind of vigilance to make your way across a continent where people voluntarily ingest tongues, kidneys, horsemeat, frogs' legs, intestines, sausages made of congealed blood, and the brains of little cows.

I like introducing people to new dishes and new flavors.

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.

Now he says that they taste more like "sweet dirt.

I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.

The body receives gratuity. The world gives graciously, disinterestedly, asking for nothing back, expecting nothing in return; it has no scales, no balance sheet. Our senses cede nothing in return for it, can give nothing back to the source of given beauties. What could the eye give back to the sun, or the palate to the vines of Yquem?

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate

Mixed drinks of all kinds should glide down the throat easily, and since most cocktails have a spirit base, the addition of ingredients containing less or no alcohol is needed to cut the strength of the drink and make it more palatable. In most cases, the base spirit, be it gin, vodka, whiskey, or any other relatively high-proof distillate, makes up over 50 percent of the cocktail, and its soul must be soothed if the bartender wants to achieve balance.

It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.

I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed.

I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.

After making my way through a bowl full of lawn (Sure, Dana had said it was exotic sautéed greens, but it smelled like the grass in Griffith Park to me.), a cold purée of squash soup (Cold. Squash. Two words that should never be thrown together in the same recipe.), and a platter of seared kelp (I'm sorry, anything that washes up onto the beach is not considered food in my world.), I

In time, one's palate will become insensitive, one will suffer (without knowing it) emotional malnutrition, the skin of the soul will fester with scurvy, the teeth of the heart will decay.

I don't know how anyone can drink alcohol, just based on the taste.

Fat gives things flavor.

There are three types of palate. There's the palate that can't taste anything, there's the normal palate, and there's the Super Palate. I don't think I've got a Super Palate, but it's pretty good.

Contrary to popular belief, I eat all types of food. Fried food is my least favorite.

Indian spices can find a place in any cuisine. It's just a matter of opening your mind and palate to new flavors.

Are you a wine connoisseur?" "No. Are you?" "Yes. I can tell the difference between a Merlot and a Budweiser. Blindfolded.