Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

I love to eat, I love to feed people, and I'm a great cook. I joked with my friends that I wanted to write a book where desserts had to be extensively researched, since I have a terrible sweet tooth. My particular downfall is cake.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.

Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.

I wear perfume even when I’m alone

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.

These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!

When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. There was something richly appealing to her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the golden highlights in the strawberry hair. it was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors.

I don't really time how long it steeps, but in general I don't plan much when it comes to tea or cooking. I'm more about the feeling.

If you can smell garlic, everything is all right.

The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.

The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.

Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.

When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.