Top 124 Spices Quotes & Sayings

Cooking turkey every year doesn't have to be monotonous - I want people to always mix it up using different spices and preparations.

Use spices for flavor in food rather than adding a bunch of oils, fats, or sauces.

One grain of incense with devotion offer'd 'S beyond all perfumes of Sabaean spices.

Rubbing meat or vegetables with sweet and savoury spices before roasting or sizzling on a grill is what summer nights are all about.

Vegetables, herbs and spices. If you can combine those ingredients, that would be the best dish you'd ever cook!

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

I love the food in Thailand because of the exotic spices they use. Their style of cooking is unique to their culture and always amazing.

Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.

I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices.

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

The air was full of spices... A Little Princess

When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.

I went out into the garden in the morning dusk, When sorrow enveloped me like a cloud; And the breeze brought to my nostril the odor of spices, As balm of healing for a sick soul.

Ounce for ounce, herbs and spices have more antioxidants than any other food group.

Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'

Great cooking is about being inspired by the simple things around you - fresh markets, various spices. It doesn't necessarily have to look fancy.

But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.

Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner.

I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

Spices, of course, are essential.

I'm always cooking big veggie curries for friends with tons of spices, coconut milk, chilli - I'll saute potatoes in the spices, then cook them with all the flavours and stir in some chickpeas and spinach at the end before serving it on a bed of sesame brown rice. It's easy to do and tastes amazing!

Southeast Asia food uses many different types of spices which are quite new to me, like the curry leaves which I saw at the Kreta Ayer wet market in Chinatown. With such spices used in cooking, this usually imparts a strong aroma to Southeast Asian food, which appeals to the senses.

Store spices in a cool, dark place, not above your stove. Humidity, light and heat will cause herbs and spices to lose their flavor.

Glogg is a Scandinavian mulled wine, sweetened with honey, almonds, raisins and spices. Its name suits its purpose so beautifully.

Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

Before I turned vegetarian, I used to often cook seafood or my favourite breakfast of eggs and bacon. Now, I love making pulao or rice with lots of spices and vegetables.

Why would these English explorers search for these spices, yet never use them in their food?

Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.

Don't be afraid to play with combinations and quantities of spices to create your own bespoke spice rub.

Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane dishes into a culinary masterpiece.

The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.

Indian spices can find a place in any cuisine. It's just a matter of opening your mind and palate to new flavors.

Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

I have a great love for cuisine, so Im always interested in local food, and there are so many interesting dishes, spices and ingredients in India.

I believe history and tradition is something solid and something we can rest on. I am not crazy about putting new spices in chocolate.

There's something about fall that very much translates into those nurturing, nostalgic food flavors. It's the season where you can really make the marriage of fresh produce with spices and aromatics.

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.

Spices are very hot, very hip. I love spices. I've always loved the Mediterranean flavors.

I think that if you grind your spices and keep them in small batches, you can use them in endless ways. The key thing is to have a spice mill or a coffee grinder, and to keep your spices cold and in tightly lidded boxes.

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.

It is easy to go vegan in Palestine, which is where I quit eating food with a face. The vegetables and spices are one of a kind, and you don't even miss the meat.

I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

I have always enjoyed my time coming to India. It is a country where I have always felt welcome and I don't mind the spices, I can deal with it.

I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.

I have a great love for cuisine, so I'm always interested in local food, and there are so many interesting dishes, spices and ingredients in India.

I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.

Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.

I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.

Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

I have encouraged my kids to eat well from day one. I add flavor - herbs and spices - to everything because I don't want them getting used to starchy, bland food.

I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.