Vegetables Quotes

"Good asparagus needs minimal treatment and is best eaten with few other ingredients."

"In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables."

"I always pan-fry sprouts - it retains texture and enhances flavour."

"Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well."

"For my money, celery hasn't got a mean bit of fibre in its body, and we all need to start being much nicer to it."

"Sweet potatoes are ideal for lazy days: just bake, then mash and mix with yogurt, butter or olive oil."

“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”

Doug Larson

“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”

Jim Davis

“Parsley is gharsley.”

Ogden Nash

“I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.”

Thomas Jefferson

“I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted.”

“Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.”

Charles Dudley Warner

“What shall I learn of beans or beans of me?”

“I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne