Jeffrey Steingarten Quotes

#1. Comparing Ferran with Heston or Grant makes no
more sense than comparing three painters because
they buy the same brand of brushes. - Jeffrey Steingarten

Grant Achatz

#2. I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

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#4. 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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#5. I can't do that," he said, exhaling sharply and staring out the glass into the street.
"Why not?"
His face softened. "I need his money."
Spencer looked at me and I couldn't help but stare back. We were all in the same boat, prisoners to GREED.

Fisher Amelie

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

Jeffrey Steingarten

#7. Et tu, Caesar? Then fall, Caesar.
Et tu, Estha? Then fall, Estha.

Arundhati Roy

#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. Maybe evolution is irrelevant at dinnertime.

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

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#12. 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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#13. Bad bread wrecks my outlook on life.

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#14. That's the way it goes. Some things happen and some things don't. This one is obviously just wasn't meant to be. Except deep down ... I still believe it was.

Sophie Kinsella

#15. If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

Socrates

#16. When [disease] can't be stopped, that's where we become lost.

Atul Gawande

#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. The hungriest wolf leads the pack.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.

Milan Kundera

#21. Almost all traditions point a big finger in the same direction, no matter what our background, one must only look up and you will see it hanging over you, pointing you somewhere, and if that place terrifies you, than you know you are on the right path.

Robert Bonomo

#22. The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Orison Swett Marden

#23. 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.

Jeffrey Steingarten