Tamar Adler Quotes

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There are plenty of good olives around. They can be buttery, or tart, if that is how you like them, but they should never taste crabby or mean.

Tamar Adler

When we cook things, we transform them. And any small acts of transformation are among the most human things we do.... we feel, when we exert tiny bits of our human preference in the universe, more alive.

Tamar Adler

Children must help shell peas. In a world of things too big, getting peas from pods is a chance for pea-sized people to exercise authority.

Tamar Adler

What is more enticing and confounding than an artichoke? I am among the class of human who is powerless against my love for them.

Tamar Adler

The degrading of mayonnaise from a wonderful condiment for cooked vegetables or sandwiches to an indistinguishable layer of fat has been radical and violent.

Tamar Adler