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Asparagus Food Quotes


“Asparagus, when picked, should be no thicker than a darning needle.
Alice B. Toklas, American writer (1877-1967)
 

“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.”
The Young House-keeper’ by William Andrus Alcott (1846)
 

"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."
Peter Ustinov
Christian Science Monitor’, 11/14/62
 

"Pray how does your asparagus perform?"
John Adams, in a letter to his wife Abigail
 

"You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy."
'Saki', pen name of Scottish writer Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916)

 

 

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