Claire Saffitz Quotes

I have dry skin, but using oily products in the summer can get so gross.

I like white wine, Riesling.

Generally I don't find that basting does a lot of anything! I think what makes the most difference is treating the turkey ahead of time with a dry brine. It really does provide a very moist result.

If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.

When your lips get dry, is there anything more frantic?

A common language doesn't soothe dry tongues and thirsty throats.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

In my opinion turkey is the most over-rated critter for eating purposes in kingdom come but the most striking example we have of the power of propaganda.

I have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom's around I let her do it.

He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.

There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.

Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.

If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?

Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the death angel. It is what I was this fall, and what I never want to be again. The pouting disconsolate mouth, the flat, bored, numb, expressionless eyes: symptoms of the foul decay within.

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

The world is a drought when out of love.

The night crackled ... Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends.

She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.

Hell is life drying up.

And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

Proper turkey preparation is critical. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more Americans die every year from eating improperly cooked turkey than were killed in the entire Peloponnesian War. This is because turkey can contain salmonella, which are tiny bacteria that, if they get in your bloodstream, develop into full-grown salmon, which could come leaping out of your mouth during an important business presentation.