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Garlic is as good as ten mothers. -- Les Blank
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. -- Cyril Connolly
You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times. -- Morley Safer
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps. -- Jim Harrison
I use a lot of fresh citrus, garlic, and fresh herbs when cooking to cut down on fat and sodium but punch up flavor. Our cupboards and fridge are full of condiments - mustards, vinegars, etc. that also add tons of flavor but are low in fat, calories, or other processed additives. -- Cat Cora
Garlic bread, it's the future, I've tasted it -- Peter Kay
Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. -- Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Without garlic I simply would not care to live. -- Louis Diat
A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific. -- Curnonsky
There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic. -- Louis Diat
Peace and happiness, begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking. -- Marcel Boulestin
Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do. -- William Shatner
We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking. -- Leslie White
Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
My favorite is Steamfresh broccoli with just a hint of garlic salt. -- Jennette McCurdy
The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away. -- Calvin Trillin
Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath. -- William Shakespeare
I particularly like to make crunchy slices of garlic bread to serve with steamed clams. -- Tom Douglas
Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant. -- Miguel de Cervantes
What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving. -- Leo Buscaglia
Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them. -- Andrea McLean
After waking up, I take my vitamins and eat fruit or, sometimes, bread with garlic, which is good for your health. -- Jordi Molla
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any. -- Jean Rostand
Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic. -- Anthony Bourdain
My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie. -- Angelo Pellegrini
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out. -- Calvin Trillin
I'd like to be reincarnated as a French tart. They're so beautiful and delicate - they're like my opposite. I'm more of a comfort food: goat cheese with garlic. -- Cecily Strong
He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head. -- Ford Madox Ford
My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner. -- Andre Dubus
I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread. -- Gareth Gates
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed. -- Evelyn Waugh
My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish. -- Jackee Harry
I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil. -- Maeve Binchy
I love my garlic press; in fact, it is probably my one true desert island gadget. But I'm happy to put it aside whenever the smell and sweet taste of slow-cooked garlic is called for. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
There's no doubt that after you eat a lot of garlic, you just kind of feel like you are floating, you feel ultra-confident, you feel capable of going out and whipping your weight in wild cats. -- Les Blank
I believe in the magic of preparation. You can make just about any foods taste wonderful by adding herbs and spices. Experiment with garlic, cilantro, basil and other fresh herbs on vegetables to make them taste great. -- Jorge Cruise
My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic. -- Tyler Florence
When you're in Portuguese-African Brazil, or Lisbon, or Mozambique, sometimes piri piri is used as a condiment. Sometimes piri piri is just spices from a jar, and sometimes it's made with garlic, olive oil, cilantro, parsley, and some light chilies. -- Marcus Samuelsson
They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. -- Luigi Barzini
Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense. -- Calvin Trillin
I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two, but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my baked tilapia and string beans with chopped garlic. But he really likes pizza. Sometimes every inanimate object to him is pizza. -- Jill Scott
If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless. -- Alice Waters
The fashion industry isn't merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color that attracts ketchup, wine, garlic aioli, and any other foodstuffs I might otherwise be able to enjoy if I wasn't wearing ridiculously tight pants. -- Diablo Cody
I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic. -- Rachael Ray
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My plat de resistance is potato salad with garlic and olive oil which we press from the olives from my trees in the grounds of my home near St Remy de Provence. I have four hectares and take the olives down to the local community press at Maussane les Alpilles. I don't produce big quantities; it is just for the family and friends. -- Jean Reno
You don't mince words.""Just garlic. -- Joan Bauer
If you like garlic, you'll like ramps. -- Jim Chamberlin
Do you guys have any raw garlic? -- Shailene Woodley
I love garlic, and I use it often. -- Eric Ripert
If you can smell garlic, everything is all right. -- J. G. Ballard
Animals have rights, to be smothered with garlic and butter! -- Ted Nugent
piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way. -- Rita Mae Brown
I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill. -- William Shakespeare
you can run out of garlic, you can't really run out of music -- Jace Wayland
Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much. -- Thomas Pynchon
If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic. -- Heather Brewer
Beetroot, garlic, lemon ... and buy a bottle of olive oil. All these things are very critical. -- Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden. -- Alice Waters
I use ginger like garlic. I love it for steaming fish and making barbecue sauces or roasted chicken. -- Tom Douglas
A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires. -- Herman Cain
The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe. -- Alexandre Dumas
Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes. -- Tom Robbins
There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes. -- Dean Koontz
If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third. -- Heather Brewer
In Pizza Express you can get garlic bread with cheese and tomato. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but that's a pizza. -- Jimmy Carr
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch. Your heart's an empty hole. Your brain is full of spiders, You've got garlic in your soul. -- Dr. Seuss
PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. -- Ambrose Bierce
For a rub with sweet tang: mix just a little bit of light brown sugar to garlic pepper, black pepper, and onion powder. -- Johnny Trigg
Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast. -- Patience Gray
Our lives are full of stress. Some meditate, some walk, some sing and dance. Nature offers us garlic, maitake and hibiscus to relieve stress -- Gunter Pauli
Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Vlad decided that teachers' ideas were a lot like bunches of garlic-intriguing from afar, but up close sadly sickening and, if you weren't careful, DEADLY. -- Heather Brewer
I use the confit principle for chicken thighs. I season them with herbs and garlic, let them marinate, and then cook them in chicken fat. -- Geoffrey Zakarian
It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach. -- George Ellwanger
Raw garlic and a skin of the lemon - not only do they give you a beautiful face and skin but they also protect you from disease. -- Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
It's important to salt the tomatoes before draining them because that helps pull out the water. Fresh herbs, some garlic and pepper will also enhance the flavor. -- Geoffrey Zakarian
My perfect last meal would be: shrimp cocktail, lasagna, steak, creamed spinach, salad with bleu cheese dressing, onion rings, garlic bread, and a dessert of strawberry shortcake. -- Joan Rivers
The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic. -- Nick Harkaway
I think garlic is absolutely critical. Lemon is absolutely critical to boost the immune system. Olive oil is absolutely critical ... just one teaspoon, it will last the whole month. -- Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
I make a bomb vaca frita. It's like a flank steak like with the ropa vieja, but it's fried with garlic and lime. And I make a really good picadillo. -- Natalie Martinez
My wife and I use a lot of garlic and rosemary with roast lamb. It has to be New Zealand lamb. The domestic variety is too gamy, in my experience. -- Alfred Molina
I always get nervous before a kissing scene. I make sure I always brush my teeth and eat lots of fruit and nice foods rather than garlic. I'm terribly self conscious. -- Drew Barrymore
Salt is a preservative. It really holds flavor. For example, if you chop up some fresh herbs, or even just garlic, the salt will extract the moisture and preserve the flavor. -- Sally Schneider
My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner. -- Andre Dubus
My favorite is the garlic press. I think it's beautiful as an object. But the awkward part of it all is that I don't use it much because I'm allergic to garlic. -- Michael Graves
I don't want to sound too mystical or weird but it's important to know what garlic smells like when it's cooking, or what eggs look like when they're cracked out of a shell. -- Joel Salatin
A good hamburger mix: add equal parts black pepper, granulated garlic, grilled onion, onion powder and some chopped onion. And mix in a little barbecue sauce, which will add even more great flavor. -- Johnny Trigg
Onions, along with leeks, garlic, shallots and scallions, make up the allium family of vegetables, which can have beneficial effects on the cardiovascular and immune systems, as well as possible anti-diabetic and anti-cancer effects. -- Joel Fuhrman
As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings. -- George Orwell
I bashed myself. I cut myself. I caught on fire. I fell: I had been myopically focused on peeling garlic, and hadn't noticed a bin of beef at my feet until I walked into it. -- Bill Buford

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