“Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?”
Curly Howard
“Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.”
Charles Lamb
“Erection is chiefly caused by parsnips, artichokes, turnips, asparagus, candied ginger, acorns bruised to a powder drunk in muscatel”
Aristotle
“You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.”
Mario Batali
“Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon.”
“I got sick of the dough, and thought I'd go on the loaf.”
“You remind me of a girlfriend in Detroit... but you look more like her stepfather!”