Pickling Quotes

#1. Theoretically, pickling can be accomplished without salt, but the carbohydrates and proteins in the vegetables tend to putrefy too quickly to be saved by the emerging lactic acid. Without salt, yeast forms, and the fermentation process leads to alcohol rather than pickles.

Mark Kurlansky

#2. Extremely ripe things are not ideal for pickling. If you pour a hot liquid over super ripe strawberries, you're going to have strawberry soup.

Wylie Dufresne

#3. The spirit of pickling is one of adventure and fun.

Wylie Dufresne

#4. At first we tried to keep up, but soon we were tired of boiling and pickling and deviling, and my mother started complaining that all these free eggs were costing her way too much.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#5. I'm red as a berry, shiny from the pickling of the womb, and squinting at the world through suspicious, slitted eyes.

Karen Joy Fowler

#6. Above all, she was a baby, not a 'big baby' like so many adults, but a small baby perfectly preserved in the pickling jar of money, alcohol and fantasy.

Edward St. Aubyn

#7. I collect flickering stars
in old pickling jars,
poking holes in the lids
so they can breathe.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#8. Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.

Morihei Ueshiba

#9. Enjoy your time in Germany, Herr Lawrence. Auf Wiedersehen." "Off-feet-a-sing," he replied.

Bryan Devore

#10. Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

Donnie Yen

#11. Some well-to-do parents may say, "I have a right to have as many children as I want because I can take care of them." That may be so, but can the Earth take care of them?

Sharon Gannon

#12. Lousse tried to make him say, Pretty Polly! I think it was too late. He listened, his head on one side, pondered, then said, Fuck the son of a bitch. It was clear he was doing his best.

Samuel Beckett

#13. There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.

David Lloyd-Jones