Sourness Quotes

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

Buttermilk's palate-cleansing tartness is one reason it's used a lot in southern India, where meals often end with a small bowl of the stuff served with plain rice and pickles.

Good vinegars come in all shapes, sizes, strengths, and viscosities and are probably my most often used seasoning agent in the kitchen after the other major acids we use in solid form: sugar and salt.

Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.

I am sure the grapes are sour.

The most important virtue in politics was once thought to be likeability. But in Corbyn, dislikeable was king. Actually, dislikeability reached its apotheosis in Donald Trump, who exhibited sourness, truculence and negativity in every step and tweet.

When I think of flavours, I think colour, so lemon should be yellow and orange is orange.

I grow old on my bitterness.

Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it.

My two essential ingredients are chilies, any kind, dried or fresh; and acid, whether it's citrus - lemon, lime, yuzu - or vinegars. Food has to pop.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.

But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your height; That with my blame my mockery you receive; Huntress and splendour of the woodland night, Diana of this world, do not believe.

Sugar is my friend, not my love. I always season sugar with a bit of acid or salt. Listen to your tongue.

A splash of red wine vinegar can pull things together like a pinch of salt.

Quince may resemble pears and apples, but unlike their fruit brethren, raw quince are inedibly tannic and sour. This means you do have to cook them, but the transformation is dramatic, and well worth your efforts.