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Quotes About Beans

I'm Puerto Rican! You can never take my rice, pork, and beans away. Plus, I love to cook. I'm one of those people who stay in the kitchen standing while everything is cooking, checking on everything.
~ Joan Smalls
Making an elixir out of coffee beans was probably invented in Ethiopia, where the plant is endemic. From there, beans, still in their skins, mixed with animal fat, were traded to Yemen, right across the Red Sea from Ethiopia.
~ Meredith Small
La nouvelle cuisine nació en Lyon, en las cocinas de Paul Bocuse. Esta mariconada posmoderna con el típico sello de la cursilería francesa todavía no había afectado de modo irreparable a las profundas esencias de la cocina vernácula, la afecta a la oreja de cerdo, a las fabes, a la morcilla de cebolla, al rabo de toro, a la olla y a la cuchara.
~ Juan Eslava Galán
I'll eat anything. I love food in general. I love traditional Mexican, carne asada. Just meat, beans, rice, and some good salsa.
~ Becky G
I'm making lunch. Who wants pasta?" "We have leftover caramelized cauliflower and some cannellini beans soaking," Lois says. "There's a chunk of pancetta in there," Benji pipes in. "I roasted a mess of garlic yesterday," Andrea offers. "Perfect," I say, smiling, the dish coming together in my head.
~ Stacey Ballis
Her eyes were like coffee beans, and, when she laughed, they really did seem to crackle like roasting beans.
~ Stefan Zweig
Comedy to observers, tragedy to participants; I consider myself an observer. I fly over my life like a migrating bird, and I only ever play for beans or counters, never for real money.
~ K.J. Parker
The same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours. If I had remembered this it would have prevented some mistakes.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great importance in the regions to which they are adapted.
~ David F. Houston
The best place to use vanilla beans is anywhere where they won't be mixed in with a million other flavors. Anything with dairy, yogurt, milk, cream, or eggs - any custard or flan - how can it be bad?
~ Alex Guarnaschelli
The benefits of organic coffee are significant, as chemical-free soil is good soil. This extends to healthy trees which result in good beans with greater antioxidants and less chemical residues.
~ Rohan Marley
I'm a real snob when it comes to coffee.
~ Philip Bailey
Love is a pig dressed as a clown sitting in a bath full of beans: pretty much amazing, once you get over the shock.
~ Craig Stone
Occasionally a few bubbles would eructate to the surface like the ghosts of beans on bath night.
~ Terry Pratchett
King John won't need any persuading that the French have a hand in this. From what I've heard, if a bean gives him a bellyache he swears it was a French one.
~ Karen Maitland
Listen, boy, just ask the chef to make me a proper Full English Breakfast . You know, bacon, fried eggs, sausages, liver, grilled mushrooms and tomatoes, black pudding, kidneys, baked beans, fried bread, toast and served with strong English mustard, mind - none of this effete French muck - and a large mug of hot, strong Indian tea.
~ Bryan Talbot
The most troublesome plant lectins are found in the hulls of grains, in beans and legumes, and the nightshade family - specifically the peels and seeds of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, etc.
~ Steven Gundry
I make it very clear that cooking and soaking helps to reduce the lectins in troublesome foods like beans and grains.
~ Steven Gundry
Beans SIDEKICKS: All beans are included in this SuperFood category, though we'll discuss the most popular and readily available beans such as pinto, navy, Great Northern, lima, garbanzo (chickpeas), lentils, green beans, sugar snap peas, and green peas TRY TO EAT: at least four ½-cup servings per week Beans contain: Low-fat protein Fiber B vitamins Iron Folate Potassium Magnesium Phytonutrients
~ Steven G. Pratt
Hummus is quick and easy to make. Puree canned garbanzo beans with chopped garlic and olive oil. Bean salads are fast to make. Toss different varieties together for a colorful salad with some fresh herbs and olive oil. Baked beans count, too! Buy or make them without too much
~ Steven G. Pratt
She starts out with pork-n-beans right out of the can, adds some kidney beans, a pound of bacon, and a pint of chopped-up ham, peppers, onions, and spicy barbecue sauce, but that's not her secret. It's a double shot of Jack Daniels and a tablespoon of red pepper flakes. That's her secret-and it makes the beans
~ Carolyn Brown
I'm Hispanic - don't mess around with my coffee. Leave my beans alone.
~ Liz Torres
There's a place called Chipotle in the U.S. It's Mexican food where everything is made to order; you can get some rice, black beans, and meat. That's what I eat three times a day.
~ Cesaro
Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi