Quotes About Dumplings

#1. Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure - and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking.

Isabel Gillies

#2. My mom is a really good cook. We used to make dumplings together.

Jason Wu

#3. My all-time favourite classic use of ricotta is in gnudi: fluffy, cheesy dumplings of almost ethereal, feathery lightness.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#4. Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!

Zora Neale Hurston

#5. Indio started forward and took the big man's hand as naturally as he'd taken his mother's. Come on! Maude's making roast chicken and there'll be gravy and dumplings.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#6. The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.

John Arbuthnot

#7. Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#8. The figure hanging upside down at the top of the great hall had 'f'n had it' with the corpulent little blood dumplings! - Bats

Fred Barnett

#9. Giving Back is like chicken and dumplings for the giver's soul ... warm, familiar and filled with rich and nourishing content.

Valaida Fullwood

#10. And her dumplings were so light they would float in the air and you'd have to catch 'em to eat 'em.

Fannie Flagg

#11. The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking ...

Rex Stout

#12. As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

Hattie McDaniel

#13. My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!

Robert P. T. Coffin

#14. But how do we know it's really you? I mean, I could put a saucepan on my head and call myself the God of Boiled Dumplings; wouldn't mean I was telling the truth.

K.J. Parker

#15. The dumplings had the flavor of paradise, and the broth spread through my veins like a secret that's fun to keep.

Lemony Snicket

#16. I'm lucky to live in New York, a city that offers so many options for lunch. I can pick up dumplings from a Midtown food truck, grab empanadas by the dozen in Spanish Harlem or get a fantastic bowl of ramen in the East Village.

Marcus Samuelsson

#17. And books -- she swallows like dumplings.

Sholem Aleichem

#18. Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

Queen Latifah

#19. A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

Charles Lamb

#20. I love my squirrel and dumplings, but you can make it with chicken and dumplings. I love making the dumplings. I think I just like to roll out dough.

Kay Robertson

#21. If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

Dolly Parton

#22. It's a good thing that dumplings are small because Lee Anne's goodies will make your willpower vanish as you reach for 'just one more'.

Roger Mooking

#23. Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.

Charles Lamb

#24. I like to quote Shakespeare. But in this case, the rapper Eminem said it best: Words are a motherfucker.

Jillian Keenan

#25. When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

Lana Del Rey

#26. They say you should treat your body like a temple. I treat mine like a fast-moving dumpster.

Matthew Inman

#27. Jahan mein ehle-e-imaan soorat-e-khursheed jeetay hain,
Idhar doobey, udhar nikley; udhar doobey, idhar nikley

In this world, men of faith and self-confidence are like the sun,
They go down on one side to come up on the other.

Allama Iqbal

#28. Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting & in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously & continuously a plan for self-development & growth.

David J. Schwartz

#29. EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!

Rachael Ray

#30. It was nothing less than murder, in her eyes

Emily Bronte

#31. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You

G.K. Chesterton

#32. I can't picture myself being the people I always looked up to.

Lindsey Vonn

#33. Hush. Don't ask any questions. It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do."
"But suppose there are two mobs?" suggested Mr. Snodgrass.
"Shout with the largest," replied Mr. Pickwick.
Volumes could not have said more.

Charles Dickens

#34. I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

James Frey

#35. At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.

Diane Cilento

#36. My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

Conrad Veidt

#37. I don't drink. Never taken a drug in my life ever. In fact from a newspaper point of view I'm very boring. I don't do anything. I don't drink no booze, no drugs, no kinky carryings on, don't go to brothels.

Jimmy Savile