"Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you."

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Source : Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

Jane Grigson

#Vegetables Quotes #Years Quotes #Smell Quotes

“Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.”
“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
“We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the canal. Roughly, please.”
“I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.”

Source : "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12,2012.
“That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.”
“I'm happy with embellishment in a chunky Prada-esque way, but I'm not into sequins!”
“If I go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich. Authority may (and may not) make all men equally rich in purse; it certainly will make them equally poor in all that makes life best worth living.”
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”

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