Quotes About Vegetable

Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

She was sipping some dreadful vegetable smoothie concoction that looked like minced caterpillars.

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

Nature's great mistake was to have been unable to confine herself to one "kingdom": juxtaposed with the vegetable, everything else seems inopportune, out of place. The sun should have sulked at the appearance of the first insect, and gone out altogether with the advent of the chimpanzee.

Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.

Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.

Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way.

The sprout's slightly bitter, sulfurous taste is meant to discourage would-be insect diners. This is the vegetable equivalent of a chemical weapon and evolved to deal with pests.

Dear God, surely you aren't the chef Sam was talking about? No, he said with a laugh, and gestured behind him with a thumb. Cale here is. Kale? Alex echoed blankly, her eyes sliding to the still half-closed door. She didn't see any evidence of a second man. Frowning, she set the phone back in its receiver and leaned to the side, trying to see out into the kitchen as she muttered, Kale is a vegetable.

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New York group that took as its mission "the introduction and acclimatization of such foreign varieties of the animal and vegetable kingdom as might prove useful or interesting" imported European starlings to the U.S. (The head of the group supposedly wanted to bring to America all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare.)

The Masai, nomadic cattle herders in East Africa, meet their salt needs by bleeding livestock and drinking the blood. But vegetable diets, rich in potassium, offer little sodium chloride.

Experience has decided that the early morning air is much more inspiring and vigorous than the evening. What is the law? Is not the atmosphere, like all other substances and tissues, spoiled of its energy by the action of light and heat? Does it not, like the vegetable and animal kingdom, require rest? After a night's rest it is recruited and young again.

It is not only Frances Moore Lappé whose mind is changing as new evidence comes in from protein research; the most rigorous scientific journals are likewise convinced. An editorial in the medical journal Lancet reports: Formerly, vegetable proteins were classified as second-class, and regarded as inferior to first-class proteins of animal origin, but this distinction has now been generally discarded.

God has not restrained the powers of darkness from carrying forward their deadly work of vitiating the air, one of the sources of life and nutrition, with a deadly miasma. Not only is vegetable life affected but man suffers from pestilence....

The life of the animal is more complete than that of the vegetable, for it intervenes more spontaneously and more efficaciously in the double function of self-protection and continuance of the species.

Asparagus is the best at de-bloating, since it helps flush out the bad stuff.

Sugar is not a vegetable.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Green as you are cabbage looking

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Organic Broccoli is the fountain of youth vegetable - Johnny Wowk AKA Johnny The Walker

The only healthy potato is a steamed organic sweet potato -Johnny Wowk AKA Johnny The Walker

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.