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"Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid."
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"The Knower of 'taste' is the Soul. The enjoyer of 'taste' is not the Soul."
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist."
"Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert."
"If I can't suck your milkshake through a straw, it's not a milkshake--it's a glass of ice cream."
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"When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate."
"Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved."
"The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other."
"The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure."
"The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown."
"I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power."
"Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them."
"The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star."
"Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking."
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