Jeffrey Steingarten Quotes

#1. Among the cognoscenti, though, it is not just about elaborate new flavors. I always consider the main test of ice cream to be the simple ice creams, especially vanilla. One should have fun when one eats, but it should also be seriously good.

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#2. But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.

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#3. Subsistence, I am happy to report, is not much of a problem for me these days either. I could probably subsist for a decade or more on the food energy I have thriftily wrapped around various parts of my body.

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#4. Bad bread wrecks my outlook on life.

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#5. In Valencia, when you catch snails for your paella, you feed them rosemary for a few days, both to purge them and to give them flavor.

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#6. The only thing more enjoyable than chocolate, is bacon.

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#7. Maybe evolution is irrelevant at dinnertime.

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#8. Whenever I travel to the South, the first thing I do is visit the best barbecue place between the airport and my hotel. An hour or two later I visit the best barbecue place between my hotel and dinner.

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#9. I am reminded that while New Yorkers say "standing on line," the rest of the English-speaking world says "standing in line.

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#10. Vegetarianism is always the product of scarcity, of religion, or of ideology, including nutritional fads and fashions.

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#11. What's so bad about addiction? I can't remember. Isn't it something about giving up your freedom? Isn't freedom an illusion?

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#12. Whenever I have nothing better to do, I roast a chicken.

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