"Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best……" — Waverley Root
"Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick, ship, handle and store it in constant fear of ruinous spoilage."
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8 Quotes by Waverley Root
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Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it…
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The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed…
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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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Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its…
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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…
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