In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper in his pantry. One way of saying that a man was poor was to say that he lacked pepper. The wealthy lacked pepper. The wealthy kept large stores of pepper in their houses, and let it be known that it was there: it was a guarantee of solvency.
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best. - Waverley Root
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.
- Waverley Root
It is the destiny of mint to be crushed. - Waverley Root
It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased o… - Waverley Root
The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased o…
The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food. - Waverley Root
The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.
In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper i… - Waverley Root
In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper i…
Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself. - Waverley Root
Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.
Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity. - Waverley Root
Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity.
Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick, ship, ha… - Waverley Root
Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick, ship, ha…
Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to … - Waverley Root
Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to …
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