Bert Greene quotes
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“Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.”
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“There is no such thing as reconstituted lemon juice, only reconstituted taste buds.”
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“Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked a point vegetables, sprinkle a handful of chopped parsley over all, and then, like a proficient striptease artist, remove the apron, allowing it to fall to the floor with a shake of her hips.”
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“Talking about food arouses certain individuals the way talking about sex does others.”
-- Bert GreeneSource : Bert Greene (1986). “Bert Greene's kitchen bouquets: a cookbook celebration of aromas and flavors”, Fireside
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“All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
Source : "The Knock at the Stage Door". Reader's Digest, December 1933.
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“The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.”
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“The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear”
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Source : Elizabeth Oakes SMITH, John KEESE (of Newburyport, Mass.) (1843). “The Sinless Child, and Other Poems. Edited by J. Keese”, p.66
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