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“He took a large tablet of beet sugar (an equivalent quantity of ordinary lump sugar does equally well) and soaked it in Angostura Bitters…

— Evelyn Waugh

“There he found the chef at his counter slicing a bulb of fennel, as four stalks of celery lying in an orderly row waited…

— Amor Towles

“Kaku, the aamti is excellent. Did you put ghee in the daal when it was boiling?”

— Sachin Kundalkar

“The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.”

— David Mitchell

“All of the monsters in my head were created by people who thought they could make me a porcelain doll marionette of their own…

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

“In the most fundamental way I have my first glimpse of how the ingredients come together, how each is nothing in particular by itself…

— Jeanne Ray

“(Cabbages were a Kel idiosyncrasy. They were adamant about their spiced cabbage pickles.) Appearance-wise”

— Yoon Ha Lee

“(Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones.”

— Marisha Pessl

“Victor eyed the glistening tubes in the tray around Dibbler's neck. They smelled appetizing. They always did. And then you bit into them, and…

— Terry Pratchett

“He is out in the garden, picking a bouquet of foxgloves. He’s laughing, sunlight turning his brown hair gold… I bet he doesn’t even…

— Holly Black

“Delicious Monster When”

— Nalo Hopkinson

“On the edge of a laughing teacup Did Kubla Kat decree The the corn fritter festooned with medals Shall make the brownies free And…

— Francesco Marciuliano