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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. -- Walter Benjamin
Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go. -- Erma Bombeck
But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them. -- Christopher Columbus
I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril's Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper. -- Emeril Lagasse
We were the Spice Boys. -- George Harrison
Spices, of course, are essential. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. -- George Bernard Shaw
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. -- William Cowper
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. -- Seneca the Younger
I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness. -- Louisa May Alcott
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson
We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. -- George R. R. Martin
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice. -- Bethany Hamilton
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know. -- Bette Davis
Great cooking is about being inspired by the simple things around you - fresh markets, various spices. It doesn't necessarily have to look fancy. -- G. Garvin
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
Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness. -- Charles Spurgeon
Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory. -- Denis Waitley
The rest of the Spice Girls wanted to invite the entire Bayern Munich team because they reckoned they'd never known blokes to be on top for 90 minutes and still come second. -- Gary Neville
When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant. -- John Vianney
Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. -- Lord Byron
I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored. -- Paul Lynde
People will get into the habit of doing the same thing over and over again, and you'll stop seeing changes in your body. If you add variety and spice things up, I think it'll help you to stay motivated. -- Dara Torres
I do the cooking at home. Where we eat no more than 100 grams of meat a day and have 'tons' of fresh vegetables. I prepare the vegetables with a wide range of herbs, spices and such. We also keep on hand lots of fruit, yogurt and great breads. -- Graham Kerr
The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give. -- William Arthur Ward
Spices are very hot, very hip. I love spices. I've always loved the Mediterranean flavors. -- Todd English
Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.' -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices. -- Rachael Ray
Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice. -- Sandra Lee
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it. -- Daniel Gilbert
Cooking turkey every year doesn't have to be monotonous - I want people to always mix it up using different spices and preparations. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane dishes into a culinary masterpiece. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood. -- Ellen G. White
I have a great love for cuisine, so I'm always interested in local food, and there are so many interesting dishes, spices and ingredients in India. -- Romain Grosjean
The range of ingredients available to home cooks has expanded dramatically. People are incorporating herbs and spices like lemongrass, smoked Mexican chile, sumac, and za'atar mix. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
We're not just any star stuff, most of which is humdrum hydrogen and listless helium. Our bodies include fancier ingredients like carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, and a few other herbs and spices. -- Seth Shostak
I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
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
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
A juicy chicken breast can be the perfect accompaniment to a classic Caesar salad or a club sandwich. It's also easy to cook, and can be as simple as dressing it with a few spices and popping in the oven. -- Marcus Samuelsson
All those spices and herbs in your spice rack can do more than provide calorie-free, natural flavorings to enhance and make food delicious. They're also an incredible source of antioxidants and help rev up your metabolism and improve your health at the same time. -- Suzanne Somers
I think that if you grind your spices and keep them in small batches, you can use them in endless ways. The key thing is to have a spice mill or a coffee grinder, and to keep your spices cold and in tightly lidded boxes. -- Marcus Samuelsson
It's quite amazing to me, as I walk around a supermarket or a health food shop, to observe the number of Fairtrade choices: not just staples such as coffee, tea, fresh fruits and rice, but cocoa and chocolate, herbs and spices, honey, ice cream, and jams. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently. -- Bobby Flay
I'd say, for me, it's cooking that gives me a space beyond music. I love food. And somehow, music and food go together so well. Cooking is very therapeutic. That preparation, the fragrance of spices, the wafting aromas - it just sweeps aside my depression, tiredness and name what you may. -- Shreya Ghoshal
In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice! -- Curtis Stone
My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn't do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot - I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping. -- Vince Cable
The air was full of spices... A Little Princess -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner. -- Jacob M. Appel
Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few. -- Joan Aiken
Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit. -- Rachel Bilson
One grain of incense with devotion offer'd 'S beyond all perfumes of Sabaean spices. -- Philip Massinger
Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices. -- David Levithan
Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood. -- George Herbert
Why would these English explorers search for these spices, yet never use them in their food? -- Jon Stewart
I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices. -- Aarti Sequeira
Vegetables, herbs and spices. If you can combine those ingredients, that would be the best dish you'd ever cook! -- Rinrin Marinka
I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices. -- Mario Batali
A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can't live like that. -- Jill Scott
The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt. -- Marian Burros
But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie! -- Margaret Junkin Preston
I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it. -- Abigail Washburn
Store spices in a cool, dark place, not above your stove. Humidity, light and heat will cause herbs and spices to lose their flavor. -- Rick Tramonto
If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers. -- Ray Bradbury
Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past. -- Wallace Stegner
When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices. -- Laura Mennell
I have a great love for cuisine, so Im always interested in local food, and there are so many interesting dishes, spices and ingredients in India. -- Romain Grosjean
I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates. -- Hanya Yanagihara
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh. -- Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are so sensuous. -- Joe Perry
Cookery means"¦English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness. -- John Ruskin
I have encouraged my kids to eat well from day one. I add flavor - herbs and spices - to everything because I don't want them getting used to starchy, bland food. -- Alison Sweeney
These are things I love, things I've worn. I get more compliments on accessories than anything else. I think they're kind of like herbs and spices. They give zest and zing to an outfit. -- Iris Apfel
Hey, Dad, you've got to taste what we just did. It's actually good. (Omari) That is good. What did you two do? (Devyn) No idea. We just added spices until it didn't suck anymore. (Omari) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You don't have to do something exotic to enjoy the benefits of natural healing agents. So many things in your kitchen - common spices, common herbs and foods - have powerful healing agents as well. -- Chris Kilham

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