Olive Oil Quotes

• I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Italian, Simple, Oil

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• The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Tree, Heaven, Olives

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• You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Should Have, Oil, Cooking

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• The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Winter, Oil, Juice

  "Yotam Ottolenghi's recipes for purple-sprouting broccoli with olive oil mash, plus scallops and jerusalem artichokes with celery and lemon" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2012.

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• Olive oil is a bang for your buck oil.

  Vinnie Tortorich

  Oil, Bangs, Bucks

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• If olive oil comes from olives, then where does baby oil come from?

  Jane Wagner

  Funny, Baby, Humor

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• I love fresh citrus and always keep lemons, limes, and oranges on hand; they come in handy for spritzing up quickly grilled meats, seafoods, and vegetables, especially when followed up by a quick drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Orange, Hands, Vegetables

  "Releasing My Inner Emeril: Lagasse Grilled" by Perry Garfinkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2009.

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• Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.

  Nigella Lawson

  Oil, Giving, Depth

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• Beetroot, garlic, lemon ... and buy a bottle of olive oil. All these things are very critical.

  Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

  Oil, Bottles, Garlic

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• Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.

  Patience Gray

  Food, Home, Wine

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• Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Children, Winter

  Bertrand Russell (1943). “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity”

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• Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Real, Wine, Oil

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2243, Simon and Schuster

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• I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.

  Nadia Giosia

  Sweet Love, Oil, Quality

  "World Chefs: No-nonsense food with a pinch of punk". Interview with Dorene Internicola, www.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

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• A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do.

  Neal Barnard

  Needs, Care, Olives

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• A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.

  Neal Barnard

  Heart, Animal, Oil

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• EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!

  Rachael Ray

  Girl, Oil, Cooking

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• I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice.

  Dean Karnazes

  Vegetables, Nuts, Corn Syrup

  "Dean Karnazes Makes Marathoners Look Lazy" By Catherine Pearson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can.

  Anne Burrell

  Oil, Trying, Pork

  "Chef Burrell shares restaurant secrets in TV show". Interview with Richard Leong, www.reuters.com. July 8, 2008.

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• I use a lot of spices, fresh veggies and fruit, extra virgin olive oil, nuts, avocado, soybeans and organic ingredients as often as possible. We need fat in our diets and using the healthier fats is key.

  Todd English

  Keys, Nuts, Oil

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• As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

  George Orwell

  Food, Oil, Cooking

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• I love grilling. Grilling is an incredible way to keep healthy. And you can marinate both with a dry rub and also wet marinades. You can marinate juniper berry or a little bit of olive oil and some citrus and fresh herbs - all of that sort of stuff.

  Curtis Stone

  Oil, Healthy, Berries

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• If Ive gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then Im really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. Its effortless.

  Alice Waters

  Oil, Tuesday, Gone

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• I am a believer in nutrient timing and supplementation, through 8Zone. I love eggs, apples, wild fish, leafy greens, brown rice, pasta, oatmeal, home grown Washington Potatoes, and cooking with coconut and olive oils.

  Apolo Ohno

  Home, Eggs, Oil

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• A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away because it's messy is never going to cackle at you toothlessly across the living room of your retirement cottage or drag you back from your sixth heart attack by sheer furious affection. Never happen. You need a woman who isn't afraid of a faceful of olive oil for that.

  Nick Harkaway

  Retirement, Real, Love You

  Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-Away World”, p.181, Random House

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• I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil.

  Maeve Binchy

  Oil, Tomatoes, Flesh

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