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Quotes About Delicacies

My favorite splurges are cheese pizza with hot peppers, Haagen-Dazs maple-walnut ice cream, Giant brand ice cream sandwiches, and fire sticks - those hot candies the size of a three-inch ruler.
~ Lindsay Wagner
The man is a humbug -- a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him.
~ lewis c s iv
Going down to New Orleans, that's where I end up with the best meals.
~ Davante Adams
grilled hot dogs, hamburgers and vegetables; melted cheese; tomato sauce; garlic; sausage; fried fish; baked pies; cinnamon and sugar; apple tarts; and on and on.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Wine is brought in coloured carafes. They glow aquamarine and sapphire, citrine and ruby, amethyst and topaz. Another course comes, with sugared violets and frozen dew. Then come domes of glass, under which little silvery fish sit in a cloud of pale blue smoke.
~ Holly Black
The good thing about Hyderabad is the variety of cuisine available. From Nizami cuisine to Andhra food to Telengana delicacies, you are spoilt for choice.
~ Rana Daggubati
Italy will always have the best food.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
Everything," he said. "My wife cooks everything well." He dealt the menus out and left us to greet another couple, and we dithered enjoyably between lamb stuffed with herbs, daube, veal with truffles, and an unexplained dish called the fantaisie du chef. The old man came back and sat down, listened to the order, and nodded. "It's always the same," he said. "It's the men who like the fantaisie.
~ Peter Mayle
The sideboard would be laden with broiled chops, eggs, rashers of bacon and ham, potatoes hashed with herbs and fried in butter, bread puddings each in its own puddle of sauce, a platter of crisp radishes and pickles on ice, dishes of stewed fruit from the orchard topped with fresh cream-
~ Lisa Kleypas
Whereas other clubs served the eternal beefsteak and apple tart, the lavish buffet at Jenner's was constantly replenished with ever-more artful dishes... hot lobster salad, casserole of pheasant, prawns on pillowy beds of pureed celery root, quail stuffed with grapes and goat cheese and served in pools of cream sauce. And Evie's favorite- a sticky flourless almond cake topped with raspberries and a thick layer of meringue.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Why can no one here think of anything but chocolates?
~ Joanne Harris
I have cardamom castles, and mendiants , and coconut truffles, and green almond crisp. Or would you prefer a cornet-surprise , with all kinds of different chocolate shapes- eggs, and chickens, and rabbits, and ducks, and little presents for everyone?
~ Joanne Harris
My sense of smell seemed preternaturally enhanced, so that I could almost taste every dish- the fish grilled in the ashes of the brazier, the roasted goat's cheese, the dark pancakes and the light, the hot chocolate cake, the confit de canard and the spiced merguez...
~ Joanne Harris
Instead she wants to know every detail of the menu I have planned for her party, relishing everything in advance. She is brimming with suggestions. Brandade trufée, vol-au-vents aux trois champignons , cooked in wine and cream with wild chanterelles as a garnish, grilled langoustines with arugula salad, five different types of chocolate cake, all her favorites, homemade chocolate ice cream...
~ Joanne Harris
Caro's eyes slid longingly over the display, the pralines, truffles, amandines, and nougats, the éclairs, florentines, liqueur cherries, frosted almonds.
~ Joanne Harris
She collects a tray from the kitchen: arranges almond and mango cream puffs, brown sugar lace cookies, and miniature napoleons of vanilla and guava: fleeting breaths of pate a choux and buttercreams that dissolve in single bites.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.
~ Giles Foden
Olivier was holding a tray of mille feuilles, meringues, slices of pies and little custard tarts with glazed fruit on top. He chose one covered in tiny wild blueberries.
~ Louise Penny
Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.
~ Paul Bocuse
Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
~ John Evelyn
desserts are the most crucial part of any meal.
~ Linda Sunshine
Today's food trucks are far from cheap eats on wheels, there are some seriously gourmet offerings on four wheels.
~ Tyler Florence
The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.
~ Donnie Wahlberg
France has given us the best filmmakers and food.
~ Matthew Gray Gubler