Savoury Quotes

#1. I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#2. Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It's a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you'll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#3. Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#4. Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#5. British food is a celebration of comfort eating. Our traditional savoury recipes are all about warmth and sustenance, our puddings a roll call of sweet jollity, our cakes are deep and cosy. We appear to be a nation in need of a big, warm hug.

Nigel Slater

#6. Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!

Winston Churchill

#7. All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

Ellen Key

#8. To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

Aristophanes

#9. Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour a Saviour.

Ralph Venning

#10. What are you giving us?"
"Cold consomme, a cutlet, and a savoury, sir. With lemon-squash, iced."
"Well, I don't see how that can hurt him. Don't go getting carried away by the excitement of the thing and start bringing in coffee.

P.G. Wodehouse

#11. I like the city late at night, the blasts of music and the splashes of light cast from bars that are still open, shoals of brightly-dressed clubber, the beeping taxis and the greasy, savoury smell of meat and onions from the burger vans.

Mhairi McFarlane

#12. The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#13. Brown for first course, white for pudding. Brown's savoury, white's the treat. Of course I'm the one who's laughing because I actually love brown toast.

Mark Corrigan

#14. I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I'm a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy.

Holly Madison

#15. For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.

Tahir Shah

#16. I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.

Arthur Schwartz

#17. It is the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations.

William Carey

#18. Once I fall in love, finishing a story leaves a hole in my heart. The characters become your friends.

Sarah J. Maas

#19. Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages.

Katharine Weber

#20. The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

Ray Davies

#21. I have to trust that there is a force greater than me that also knows and sees this, and breathes with it and knows that it's part of a grander plan, and all the good things people do matter.

Caroline Myss

#22. The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away from me.

Muhammad Ali

#23. Feel me. Feel how much I want you - not just now, but for the rest of our lives.

Pepper Winters

#24. In tougher times, when dollars are tighter, the next round of funding may never come.

Steven Gary Blank