Jane Grigson Quotes

#1. Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.

Jane Grigson

#2. This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal ... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke.

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#3. The apple was the first fruit of the world according to Genesis, but it was no Cox's Orange Pippin. God gave the crab apple and left the rest to man.

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#4. In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.

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#5. This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a banana.

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#6. A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect on that when you are next preparing the family salad.

Jane Grigson