Words matter. These are the best Cabbage Quotes from famous people such as Roger McGough, Anthony Johnson, Keith Allen, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Logan Lerman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was put off by people at school – my cabbage wasn’t as good as other people’s, you know, so that put me off.
I was sitting around bored one day and was thinking of a name that would fit me. They have ‘Cabbage,’ ‘Rampage,’ ‘Shogun,’ and ‘Ninja’ so why can’t we have a ‘Rumble?’
I was brought up on stuffed hearts, cabbage and mashed potatoes. It’s repulsive, when I look back – I used to go to the butchers to get Mum’s sausages, and I would cut one off and squeeze the inside of it straight into my mouth. Insane!
At lunchtime, our kitchen was like a mini restaurant: my grandmother and mother had to cook for as many as 25 people – extended family plus 10 employees. We ate a lot of cabbage and a lot of potatoes.
I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for… what was it called?… Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man’s head.
Diets – the ultimate empty promise perpetuating the same cycle over and over again. We’ve all been victims of yo-yo dieting. We stick to some diets longer than others, but c’mon, just how much cabbage soup can a person eat?
My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs.
I’d say I’m a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make – schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.
I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Napa cabbage is very beautiful, all those long, pale leaves with ruffled edges.
I am often asked the question: ‘What is your favorite type of food?’ Although I always answer Japanese, the real response should be and is pierogi, the delectable Polish dumplings that my mother, Big Martha, made so well in many incarnations: potato, sweet cabbage, blueberry, peach, plum, and apricot.
One day, the people who work in my kitchen stir-fried chopped Napa cabbage to serve with some meat or fish for their own dinner. I got to thinking: ‘What if the cabbage was the most important thing on the plate?’
I was, like, a total cliched ’80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.
‘Up the Junction’ went on to inform my love of British social realism. It was the first film I saw of this ilk, a very stark, visceral reflection of England, an England I didn’t necessarily feel a part of but that I knew was out there. You could almost smell the bread and butter and cabbage.
The hardest is foods I am not familiar with. Gyros, I lost that one; I don’t like tzatziki sauce very much. I did kimchi in Korea, which was rough: fermented cabbage and spicy.
My missus likes my steak and coleslaw. My coleslaw’s not pure handmade, the cabbage will be ready to go but I’ll add stuff to it.
Corned beef and cabbage – that’s our favorite holiday meal when all the O’ Haras gather around the table.
Timberlake was once a boy-band idol with mismatched baggy attire and the curly, frosted locks of a Cabbage Patch Kid doll. His early fashion missteps included a full denim costume complete with rhinestones and a cowboy hat, and for a time, his hair was twisted in cornrows.
On Christmas Eve, we have a duck or roast pork with caramelised potatoes, braised red cabbage and gravy. For dessert, we have ris a l’amande, a rice pudding, and whoever gets the whole almond in it wins an extra present. Then we dance around the tree and sing carols.
People remember the different variations of stuffed cabbage based on their mothers and grandmothers. It’s not just about food. Eating something as traditional as this is a cultural experience, one that is spiritual and nostalgic. It manages to transcend time; it’s food for the soul.
