Sarah Weinman Quotes

There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents.

Food simply isn't important to me.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

I love food.

Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience.

Food can change anything.

I loved the taste and smell of Chicago hot dogs.

No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

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

I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing… I can always get a J. Crew catalogue… …So spare me, if you please, the hero’s ‘sharply intelligent blue eyes’ and ‘outthrust determined chin’.

Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.

Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

I would imagine that Bret would taste like a warm goat cheese, and Jemaine would taste like harvati with dill. Hmm...I'm hungry actually.

Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.

I'll tell you what can make bacon better... nothing.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

The nourishment is palatable.

If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him.

I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page, I want them to step out of the landscape.

I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?

Let your condiments be in the condition of your senses.