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Onions, smoke, and women bring tears to your eyes.
Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven - corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats - account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.Bill Bryson
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Pizza with pineapple, that's a cake... Pizza with cucumber, it's an insult.Alessio Vinci
Radish is poison in the morning, food at noon and medicine in the evening.
Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions.Jerry A. Fodor
Shallots are for babies; Onions are for men; garlic is for heroes.(unknown author)
The best cook drops a whole tomato.
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution..Paul Cezanne
The garlic said to the onion: 'you stink.'
The mortar always smells of garlic.
There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.Louis Diat
There is no such thing as a little garlic.Arthur Baer
These things are just plain annoying. After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual 'food' out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps.Miss Piggie
This cabbage, these carrots, these potatoes, these onions ... will soon become me. Such a tasty fact!Mike Garofalo
To a worm in horseradish, the whole world is horseradish.
To be tossed around like a hot potato.
To dangle a carrot in front of a donkey.To tempt someone
To sell cucumbers to the gardener.A useless act.
Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; Wine and tarragon make it French; Sour cream makes it Russian; Lemon and cinnamon make it Greek; Soy sauce makes it Chinese; Garlic makes it good.Alice May Brock
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.Jim Davis
We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that. xEnya
Amaranthus species are grown as ornamental plants for their flowers, or for their grains, or are used as a leaf vegetable.
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.Augustus Saint-Gaudens
When a worm sits in horseradish, it thinks there's nothing sweeter.
Where Basil grows, no evil goes!
Whoever eats chili gets burned.
Without garlic I simply would not care to live.Louis Diat
You can't eat okra with just one finger.
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