Desperate Quote by Claire Saffitz

Peas are terrible and a joke food.

— Annie Murphy

I like them cooked but I tell you what I really like - eating peas straight from the garden. If you take them straight…

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I love peas and can happily tuck into a big bowl, but my favourite vegetables are Brussels sprouts. I talk about them so much…

— Samantha Barks

I'm a farmer's market girl, so if you go and get beautiful, fresh fruit, that's local, and it hasn't been frozen yet, it's pretty…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

Canned chickpeas are my tried-and-true pantry fallback for those days where I get home late with no game plan and no energy to cook.…

— Claire Saffitz

I have this obsession with pea pods. They're just really nice to look at. They can be perfect.

— April Bloomfield

I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my…

— Caitlin Moran

I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus.

— David Chang

I have met vegetable growers who offer seasonal produce grown for taste rather than the ability to survive weeks in cold storage; meat producers…

— Rick Stein

Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good raw, and then put them in tins, and…

— Neil Gaiman

I take all my grandchildren down to the garden and they spend hours and hours eating peas.

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall