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The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health…
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Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from…
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Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative…
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
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It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
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The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.
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Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who…
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The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just…
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Popular Turnips quotes from across the collection:
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This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.
— Richard Burton
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Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.
— Alain Ducasse
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I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water;…
— Erik Satie
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In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has
— Mark Twain
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To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.
— Saadi
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[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect…
— Marlene Dietrich
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....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.
— Mark Twain
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