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Quotes About Flavor

Easy is tasteless and bland
~ Kim Harrison
ate a chip, then went to the fridge for the dip. Everything was better with sour cream and chives.
~ Kim Harrison
Two grande lattes, double espresso, Italian blend," he said to the clerk. "Light on the froth, extra cinnamon. Use whole milk. Not two percent or half-and-half. Put a shot of raspberry in one for my itchy
~ Kim Harrison
You want something to eat?" Nick said, yanking my attention back. "I, uh, could go across the street for some Graeter's. You like butter-pecan ice cream?
~ Kim Harrison
grande latte, double espresso, Italian blend, light on the froth, heavy on the cinnamon, with a shot of raspberry?
~ Kim Harrison
I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?
~ Debra Winger
I dug wild mushrooms out of a jungle in Gabon, plucked 'Vanilla pompona' orchids from Madagascar treetops, tracked down Sichuan hot pot pepper in a seedy back alley in Shanghai. I've sniffed test tubes filled with scents that are not of this earth. But I have never quite been struck the way I have been struck by your apple.
~ Jeffrey Stepakoff
Turning a corner, she encountered the smell of fried chicken. One of the test kitchens had been working on a new product for a fast-food client, developing a proprietary sauce for a new kind of sandwich to compete with one KFC had recently brought to market. It had no bun, but rather two pressed chicken segments deep-fried in a shortening of processed lard and beef fat, wrapped around thick shingled bacon and a slice of provolone, and smothered in this hydrogenated oil-based sauce.
~ Jeffrey Stepakoff
Just drop some onion and garlic in olive oil, and your day improves exponentially.
~ Jen Hatmaker
Crackers with a smear of mustard and a tiny bit of ham.
~ Jennifer L. Holm
ICED TEA REQUIRES only half as much sugar if sweetened when hot than when cold.
~ EllynAnne Geisel
and spinach from the pan
~ Emeril Lagasse
Trojan is a no-blow-job- condom. The flavor is horrible. Someone should come up with a barbecue-flavored condom for the hood. But greedy bitches would probably start chewing dicks.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
I FEEL AS THOUGH I AM EATING the alphabet. Twenty-six courses of letters, each with its own distinctive flavor. It is inevitable that some letters will taste delicious, others not so much. Some will have a delicate flavor, others will be more like a hearty peasant stew.
~ Ammon Shea
The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Taylor liked a little more bite from a kiss. Brandon had that. Like the bite of alcohol in a mojito—some citrus, some mint, and some wow. Absolutely lethal.
~ Amy Lane
Start to flavor your finger with the toothpaste. Then wrap your finger with a soft cloth, add a bit of the paste, and massage your kitten's teeth and gums with that. Stop when she protests too much. Be satisfied if you can do one side—you simply want to build up her tolerance level.
~ Amy Shojai
Gin is really nothing more than a flavored vodka whose predominant flavor is juniper, so gin drinkers who say they won't drink vodka misunderstand the nature of their addiction. The base spirit itself is generally a mixture of barley, rye, and perhaps wheat or corn.
~ Amy Stewart
In fact, tequila and mezcal both work beautifully in any cocktail that calls for whiskey, rye, or bourbon.
~ Amy Stewart
American white oak, on the other hand, releases the same flavor molecules found in vanilla, coconut, peach, apricot, and cloves. (In fact, artificial vanilla is made from a sawdust derivative because it has such high levels of vanillin.)
~ Amy Stewart
TIP: Adding a splash of the wine you're drinking to the sauce can build a bridge between the food and the wine.
~ Andrew Dornenburg
Assam tea goes very well after white wine. —MICHAEL OBNOWLENNY, Canada's first tea sommelier
~ Andrew Dornenburg
For me, 30 days, it's already pretty good for ribeye or sirloin on the bone. I like my meat grass-fed and juicy. The French never age their meat more than two or three weeks.
~ Daniel Boulud
I have kind of a weird technique with zucchini. I cut it into small cubes; sweat it in olive oil, adding just a little oil at time so it crisps. Then I cover it with boiling water, not stock, which really brings out the flavor of the zucchini, add lemon, thyme, and serve it with burrata and a fried zucchini flower.
~ Tom Colicchio