Cooking Quote by Helen Evans Brown

“We hole up in my room with Chinese food (crab Rangoon, kung pao chicken, wonton soup).”

— Jason Myers

“Let’s order cheap Chinese and eat it out of the box with chopsticks.” “Let’s order good Chinese and do that.”

— Sylvia Day

“Under Chairman Mao, every Chinese family was obliged to kill a sparrow a week to stop them eating all the rice. The project was…

— John Lloyd

“Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted…

— Abraham Lincoln

“No amount of takeout Chinese food or politeness ought to make me forget exactly who and what I am dealing with.”

— Holly Black

“It is the technique, above all, that makes a meal Chinese or not.”

— Bee Wilson

“... Chinese consider eating food to be one of the rare joys of living...”

— Frederick J. Simoons

“I am just a thistle.”

— Logospilgrim

“Common thistle is everywhere,” she said. “Which is perhaps why human beings are so relentlessly unkind to one another.”

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

“a spoon is a great tool for stirring soup but it’s not a recipe.”

— Chris Voss

“Ox, at an early age a Chinese genius gazes at the path that lies ahead and reaches for a wine jar," Master Li said.…

— Barry Hughart

“O great and mighty Master Li, pray impart to me the Secret of Wisdom!" he bawled. "Take a large bowl," I said. "Fill it…

— Barry Hughart