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  • The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.

    Funny   Humorous   Iraq  
  • A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.

    Food   June   July  
  • If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

    Women   Food   Memorable  
    "Close to Colette". Book by Maurice Goudeket, 1956.
  • I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.

    Memorable   Simple   Eggs  
  • Sometimes love doesn't come to us. We have to go out hunting. It's like pigs looking for truffles. It's called dating.

    Hunting   Pigs   Dating  
  • We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Pudd'nhead Wilson”, p.30, Xist Publishing
  • When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.

    Memories   Mind   Doe  
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.175
  • A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.

    Sports   Baseball   Team  
  • I enjoyed retirement the right way linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.

    Retirement   Wine   Red  
  • Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.

    Food   Two   Giving  
    Craig Claiborne (1994). “Craig Claiborne's New York Times Food Encyclopedia”, Outlet
  • I love black truffles. I love white truffles.

    White   Black   Truffles  
  • One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

    Music   Art   Creativity  
    "The Apollonian Clockwork". Book by Louis Andriessen, 1983.
  • It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles.

    Men   Pigs   Truffles  
  • My truffles? You took them? That's just mean!

    Mean   Truffles  
    Eoin Colfer (2007). “Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception”, Miramax
  • Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

    Food   Nuts   Earth  
  • My favorite splurge would be gluten-free pizza. Or I'm a total truffle addict so truffle mac and cheese.

    "Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger's Weight-Loss Secrets". Interview with Karen Borsari, www.shape.com.
  • A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?"

    Country   Cheer   Food  
  • A different set of incentives from rising in an economic establishment where the rewards system, again, the reinforcement, comes from being a truffle hound. That's what Jacob Viner, the great economist called it: the truffle hound - an animal so bred and trained for one narrow purpose that he wasn't much good at anything else, and that is the reward system in a lot of academic departments.

  • Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it.

    Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.202, Simon and Schuster
  • Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.

  • You look beautiful in this dress." "And yet you're trying to take it off." "You know that look that Jessica gets when she unwraps one of her truffles?" he asked. "Like she fell into a pool of chocolate with Keanu Reeves and Hugh Jackman swimming toward her?" He looked at me, his lips quirking. "Have that fantasy often?" Heh. Who, me? "Nope. Why would I, when I have you?" "Nice recovery.

    Michele Bardsley (2009). “Over My Dead Body”, p.197, Penguin
  • Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

    Food   Dark   Clouds  
  • When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!

    Pigs   Trying   Actors  
  • Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

    Food   Jewels   Cooking  
  • Over the years, Céline Labaune has been constantly seeking to source the highest quality truffles; her diligence and expertise truly set her apart.

    Years   Quality   Lines  
  • The onion is the truffle of the poor.

    Food   Cooking   Onions  
  • Valhalla on the right. Paradise regained on the left. Stuck between a Godiva truffle and a chocolate eclair. Between a rock and a very hard place. Two very hard places from the looks of it.

    Rocks   Two   Chocolate  
    Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.41, Dell
  • What kind of tea do you want?" "There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?" "Let´s see... Blueberry, Raspberry, Ginseng, Sleepytime, Green Tea, Green Tea with Lemon, Green Tea with Lemon and Honey, Liver Disaster, Ginger with Honey, Ginger Without Honey, Vanilla Almond, White Truffle Coconut, Chamomile, Blueberry Chamomile, Decaf Vanilla Walnut, Constant Comment and Earl Grey." -"I.. Uh...What are you having?... Did you make some of those up?

    White   Tea   Coconuts  
  • The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to an area where there might be truffles. The pig searches diligently for the truffles. Finally, he locates one, and just as he is about to devour it, the farmer snatches it away.

    Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

    Food   Ideas   Erotic  
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