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  • A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.

    Food   June   July  
  • He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

    Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"
  • With passion, if you see the first asparagus of the springtime and you become passionate about it, so much the better, but three weeks later, when you’ve seen that asparagus every day now, passions have subsided. What’s going to make you treat the asparagus the same? It’s the desire.

    "Thomas Keller On Why Passion Shouldn’t Drive You" by Mark Wilson, www.fastcodesign.com. April 3, 2013.
  • The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus.

    "Louie Gohmert Goes Off On Eric Holder At House Hearing" By Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2013.
  • What is that smell? (Nick) (It was like three-day-old cat vomit mixed with rotten asparagus.) Duck urine. It keeps the zombies from thinking I’m human. (Mark) Yeah, well it keeps me from thinking you’re sane. (Nick)

    Cat   Thinking   Ducks  
  • He took a bite, swallowed. "God. If asparagus tasted like that all the time, I'd be vegetarian, too." Some people in a lacquered wooden boat approached us on the canal below. One of them, a woman with curly blond hair, maybe thirty, drank from a beer then raised her glass towards us and shouted something. "We don't speak Dutch," Gus shouted back. One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.

    Beautiful   Couple   Beer  
  • Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes.

    Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”
  • Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

  • Pray how does your asparagus perform?

    Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.174, UPNE
  • Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect my manners, morals, intellect, general physique, and method of eating asparagus with such acerbity that by the time she had finished the best you could say of Bertram was that, so far as was known, he had never actually committed murder or set fire to an orphan asylum.

    Girl   Home   Writing  
    P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.116, Booklassic
  • After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

    Rose   Bed   Twenties  
    Cecil Beaton (1955). “I take great pleasure”
  • Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

    Food   Night   Men  
  • One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted.

  • Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

    Father   Holiday   Mean  
    Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.30, Faber & Faber
  • Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet

    Art   Weather   Asparagus  
    Gertrude Stein (2014). “Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition”, p.52, City Lights Publishers
  • You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.

    Summer   Years   Squash  
  • my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

  • Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.

    Tired   Cutting   Night  
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley
  • I love fresh vegetables and we always include them in our meals. I don't force my kids to eat asparagus, but they do eat peas, broccoli, and carrots.

    "The Mommy Diet". Interview with Caylin Harris, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 9, 2011.
  • Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would sit down and eat a steak with Keith Olbermann and Barack Obama before they would dine on tofu and asparagus with me!

    Asparagus   Tofu   Keith  
    Source: www.all-creatures.org
  • (on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.

    Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.27, Faber & Faber
  • Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

    Food   Inspire   Cooking  
  • It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.

    Fun   Book   Grandma  
  • Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an Italian newspaper? I replied aloud to him: "First of all," I said, "I'm very sorry, but this isn't your business anymore. And secondly, to answer you question...yes.

    Sorry   Husband   Italian  
  • ... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.

    Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
  • Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.'

    Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.177, Crown Archetype
  • I would follow my mother around the kitchen watching and trying to find any way to help. One of the first dishes my mother taught me to make was hollandaise sauce. Though she always served it with broccoli, I soon realized it was equally delicious with asparagus, artichokes, or any other vegetable.

    Corky Pollan, Lori Pollan, Dana Pollan, Tracy Pollan (2016). “The Pollan Family Table: The Best Recipes and Kitchen Wisdom for Delicious, Healthy Family Meals”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
  • Coppi? Is he the one we followed in the Giro del Piemonte? The guy who is as skinny as an asparagus? He doesn't lack courage, I'll give you that, but I think he's kind of fragile.

    Thinking   Giving   Guy  
  • The love of reading can be contagious.

    Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2009). “Grip of the Shadow Plague”, p.282, Simon and Schuster
  • I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

    Memories   Husband   Men  
    'Little Dorrit' (1857) bk. 1, ch. 24 (Flora Finching)
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