Garlic Quotations

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

I make a bomb vaca frita. It's like a flank steak like with the ropa vieja, but it's fried with garlic and lime. And I make a really good picadillo.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread.

I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims' homes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague.

My plat de resistance is potato salad with garlic and olive oil which we press from the olives from my trees in the grounds of my home near St Remy de Provence. I have four hectares and take the olives down to the local community press at Maussane les Alpilles. I don't produce big quantities; it is just for the family and friends.

My favorite is Steamfresh broccoli with just a hint of garlic salt.

It's important to salt the tomatoes before draining them because that helps pull out the water. Fresh herbs, some garlic and pepper will also enhance the flavor.

Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.

He had us make some toast points, and he told us to crush the (slow-roasted) garlic out of its skin and spread it on the toast along with the chicken. Roasting tamed the garlic and gave it a lovely taste. It was absolutely delicious.

People often think that light cooking is bland and boring, causing them to only stick with healthier eating for the short term. But if you use lots of flavorful ingredients such as fresh herbs, fruit juices, garlic and other strong seasonings, low-fat/low-calorie cooking can be very delicious and satisfying, helping people to stick to a healthy eating pattern for a lifetime.

Well I mean it's a great recipe. I mean it's the ground beef, it's marinated with a little red wine. We've got the vegetables in there, got our champ, which is our garlic mashed potatoes baked on top.

We don't want to lose the feel that it's Gilroy's Garlic Festival. That it is for the people of Gilroy to show the rest of the world who we are. We don't want to lose that by becoming too corporate.

It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.

I've tried to get similar food other places, especially the lasagna and garlic bread. You can't. It just doesn't work.

The tale of the zombie consumer continues, ... There is no stopping him or her: Can't shoot 'em, stab 'em, or keep 'em away from the stores with garlic -- especially with post-season sales in progress.

After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths.

You're going to use it for something you want to add heat to, and it has complexity because of all the chopped garlic in it. It keeps for at least a year in the refrigerator, and it's inexpensive. You get a lot of bang for your buck.

Accessibility will be improved in terms of holding meetings and being more openly visible to the community. It will be a great addition to the downtown and a cornerstone for the Garlic Festival and the city.

Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

It makes me think of mushroom pasta with dripping garlic bread and butter, not margarine, no margarine on this record, it's all butter.

It will take this person a lot of getting used to, asking a lot of questions, sitting in on meetings. I would think that for this first Garlic Festival it will really be about working alongside us. Afterward, we're hoping the strengths of this person can take us into the future.

They both had very strong qualities. We thought that they could take the Garlic Festival to a new level.

I love my garlic press; in fact, it is probably my one true desert island gadget. But I'm happy to put it aside whenever the smell and sweet taste of slow-cooked garlic is called for.

If you can smell garlic, everything is all right.

Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking.

After waking up, I take my vitamins and eat fruit or, sometimes, bread with garlic, which is good for your health.

I love garlic, and I use it often.

In Pizza Express you can get garlic bread with cheese and tomato. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but that's a pizza.

Do you guys have any raw garlic?

Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.

Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do.

I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill.

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

Animals have rights, to be smothered with garlic and butter!

Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.

There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.

What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick!