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Tag Name "Turnips" (9)

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They were frightening enough, but Tessa could not help but feel that if Will were there, he would have commented that they looked like turnips, and perhaps made up a song about it.
Cassandra Clare
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I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water fruit mold, rice, turnips camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless).
Erik Satie
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From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.
Marlene Dietrich
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Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.
Alain Ducasse
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A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.
Daniel Boulud
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Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. The night is dark and full of turnips, he announced in a solemn voice. Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.
George R. R. Martin
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....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.
Mark Twain
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If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Samuel Johnson