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“I remember how your eyes widened. I remember staring and staring at the end of your finger until, at last, an emerald blur ripened into realness. And I saw them. The birds. All of them. How they flourished like fruit as your mouth opened and closed and the words wouldn't stop coloring the trees. I remember forgetting the blood. I remember never looking down.
Yes, there was war. Yes, we came from its epicenter. In that war, a woman gifted herself a new name- Lan- in that naming claimed herself beautiful, then made that beauty into something worth keeping. For that, a daughter was born, and from that daughter, a son.
All this time I told myself we were born from war- bit I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty.
Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence- but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“...the reality of late summer and early autumn when Adelaide, more than any place on earth, and as simply as pouring tea from a pot, pours fourth from a lavish cornucopia into gardens and parks and markets and arcade stalls a cascade of carnations and grapes and melons, guavas and Michaelmas daisies and tomatoes, zinnias and belladonna lilies and tuberoses, lavender and quinces and cumquats and pomegranates, roses and roses and roses.”
― Hal Porter, Paper Chase

“The salmon is perfectly cooked. The trace amounts of sugar contained in the wheat flour have combined with the butter in a chemical reaction that's creating a wonderful fragrance. It was all fried together for precisely the right amount of time to create a superb Meuni¨¨re."
"The squid liver was quickly saut¨¦ed in a dollop of butter as well, taking a bite of that with the Meuni¨¨re is sublime! The butter's flavor gently wraps around the salty and pleasantly bitter taste of the liver, giving it a beautifully mellow body."
"He added pomegranate seeds and tonburi to the soy sauce marinated roe! Those three completely disparate flavors meld into a seamless whole thanks to butter! Not only does it have an amusing texture, the roe doesn't have its typical greasiness either!"
*Tonburi, also called land caviar, is the seeds of the summer cypress plant. It's texture is similar to caviar.*
He's used mounds of butter in so many different facets of the dish, but it somehow hasn't made the flavor heavy at all. The secret to that lies in the bed of special sushi rice hidden underneath the seafood!
"This sushi rice was made not with vinegar but with orange juice and lemon juice!"
"So that's why he was squeezing that mountain of oranges!"”
― Yuto Tsukuda, ʳꪤΥ½©`¥Þ 28 [Shokugeki no Souma 28]

“A lemon tree was nearly universal; other trees varied with climate - almond trees in Adelaide and Perth, plums and apples in Melbourne, choke vines and bananas in Sydney and Brisbane, a mango in Cairns, figs and loquats everywhere. For a few weeks, there was a gross overabundance of fruit and much trading ('I'll take some of your plums if you take some of my apples next month').”
― George Seddon

“Fruits are naturally nurtured candies.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Do not confuse work and fruit. There may be a good deal of work for Christians that is not the fruit of the Heavenly Vine.”
― ANDREW MURRAY

“Avocado must be a magical fruit.
The name itself sounds like an invocation.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Strawberries should be admired, not eaten.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“You have two options in life: stay home, and stay hungry, or go out there, pluck some cashews, and convert them into cash.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“In this day and age, it is hard for a saint to trust the cucumber.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Introverts are like the stars in star apples.
They don¡¯t feel the need to reveal themselves, except someone rips them open.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“It took several months of being on a gluten free diet before I started to see chronic fatigue reactions to pizza, tempura and fruit drinks that would last several hours.”
― Steven Magee

“And then Henry saw it. The tart. It was small, so small it could fit in the palm of his hand, and filled with some kind of fruit- apple, probably, or maybe pear or some kind of stone fruit- but the fruit was sliced so thin that Henry couldn't tell what it was. Each slice was arranged like the petal of a flower, so that the tart looked exactly like a rose. A buttery, sugary, edible pastry rose.”
― Stephanie Kate Strohm, Love ¨¤ la Mode

“The main reason to be suspicious of fruit as a food for children was that it was just so delicious.”
― Bee Wilson, First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“The ibex ran off with her neighbor, after five days, to do some environmental and social reform campaigning in the Mexican mountains hoping to see some casaba melons, as well as houses for sheep, and informed the penguin he would do well.”
― J.S. Mason, The Ghost Therapist...And Other Grand Delights

“Forgetting the fruits of your action is for getting the fruits when you truly deserve them.”
― Jay Kumar Singh

“Humans the world over have no problem chewing unhealthy food, yet the moment they realize they've eaten that tiny, black, hardened end of a banana, it's as if they've just put feces in their mouths.”
― Gregor Collins, The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann

“An apple a day will keep the pimples away!”
― Chandra dos Santos

“Fruit is end product.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I look down at my list of fruits and recite the names under my breath, syncing into the rhythms of nearby batucada drummers. Softly chanting, I close my eyes, and feel a sense of peace. For a moment, I forget everything. I forget my name. I forget why I came here. All I know is abacax¨ª, a?ai, ameixa, cupua?u, graviola, maracuj¨¢, tapereb¨¢, uva, umbu.”
― Adam Leith Gollner, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Obsession, Commerce, and Adventure

“Every time we eat a fruit, we engage in a reproductive act.”
― Adam Leith Gollner, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Obsession, Commerce, and Adventure

“I swear, I will go to my grave thinking of my brother's peach.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“In the produce section she stopped to inhale the smell of so many oranges- Valencia, blood, juice, navel- net bags of limes, stacks of pineapples. The hygienic overtones of bleach were also in the air and she sniffed at the scent of chlorine as though it were a delicacy. She picked up a watermelon as big as a child, lifting it with difficulty into her cart. A sheaf of plantains. Peaches thick with fuzz.
She chose bottled waters from Maine and Italy, from Germany and France, then proud-colored squeeze bottles of Joy and Cheer, Dove and Palmolive. She reached for high-protein cereals and protein bars, granola with cranberries, Cap'n Crunch. She explored the store, lapping up the light, listening to the music with its brave half-heard songs of love lost and found.
Naomi passed by the stacks of mammalian flesh cut into portions wrapped in tight plastic. She lingered at the fish counter to contemplate the blackness of the mussels, the glistening dislocated stripes of the mackerel, the rosy pinkness of the salmon fillets arrayed on the ice. Here were animals still with their eyes on, red snapper and Mediterranean black bass. In a tank of greenish water, lobsters swam with halting deliberation; she pursed her lips and gave a furtive salute, her fingers held like claws.”
― Grace Dane Mazur, The Garden Party: A Novel

“The Hidden Light of the Night softens the wheat and the fruit, making it sweet.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“Eating grains to get more fiber is like eating carrot cake to get more vegetables. There is far more sugar in whole grains than in vegetables and even fruits.”
― Sarah Ballantyne, Paleo Principles: The Science Behind the Paleo Template, Step-by-Step Guides, Meal Plans, and 200 + Healthy & Delicious Recipes for Real Life

“I have discovered a fountain of youth.
It is called fruit salad and peace of mind.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“The Guava fruit tastes great, but its seeds are annoying.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Some people don¡¯t have real love for bananas; they only eat it because of the wonders they believe it performs.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“It is against the law of Pineapples for humans to drink water after eating them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Bad seeds result in bad fruit. However, in an increasingly reprobate culture, we refuse to correlate the fact that the fruit is bad with the seeds that it grew from. So we either need to shut up and get used to bad fruit, or we need to acknowledge the abundance of bad seed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough