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“The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth…

— Muriel Barbery

“Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue;…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Wow,” I said. And I meant it. I had never thought of a tomato as a fruit - the ones I had known were…

— Stephanie Danler

Even vegetables have feelings in our world.

— Seth Rogen

The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

— John Updike

“It encapsulates so neatly the lesson of expectation and reality that it could serve as a parable. The fact that tomatoes are good is…

— Siri Hustvedt

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

— Robinson Jeffers

I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

— Rachael Ray

Cooking is creating emotion.

— Joel Robuchon

“Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive—it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.”

— David Eagleman