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Quotes About Vegetable

I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
The word salad here means any vegetable eaten raw or uncooked, e.g., a bowl of cold pasta in olive oil with a token vegetable is not a salad. I encourage my patients to eat two huge salads a day, with the goal of consuming an entire head of romaine or other green lettuce daily. I
~ Joel Fuhrman
Oil gets absorbed efficiently and quickly and converted almost instantly into body fat. Even olive oil, coconut oil, and soybean oil. When fat calories are absorbed so rapidly in such a large bolus, they cannot all be utilized for energy, so they are rapidly stored as body fat, something Americans have in large supply. Excess body fat increases the likelihood of cancer. Vegetable
~ Joel Fuhrman
Cut or chop the onion finely, or put it in a blender or food processor before cooking. •  Eat some raw onion every day.
~ Joel Fuhrman
Lycopene is the signature carotenoid of the tomato.
~ Joel Fuhrman
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
~ Mark Twain
It's pronounced 'Romaine', like the lettuce.
~ Rebecca Romijn
I grew up loving okra.
~ Mena Massoud
Pia was chopping up an enormous cabbage, a cabbage big as a basketball. The cabbage was of an extraordinary size. It was a big cabbage. "That's a big cabbage," Edward said. "Big," Pia said.
~ Donald Barthelme
Asparagus is in season.
~ Donna Tartt
Look at them. They're pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first.
~ Jacqueline Harpman
In short, okra had come to be completely accepted by the Virginia gentry by the early nineteenth century.
~ John Egerton
I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.
~ Paul Merton
Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.
~ Mark Twain
And all amid them stood the Tree of Life,   High eminent, blooming Ambrosial Fruit   Of vegetable Gold; and next to Life   Our Death the Tree of Knowledge grew fast by,   Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.
~ John Milton
Okra is essentially a squid that grows in the ground instead of swimming in the ocean.
~ John Sandford
Villains fear me because I am unpredictable and broccoli. See what I mean?
~ Demetri Martin
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.
~ Waverley Root
The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
~ Jasper Fforde
Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.
~ Lord Chesterfield
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
~ Aristophanes
Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.
~ Swami Vivekananda
An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
~ Will Rogers
I am not a tomato
~ Mary E. Pearson