Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane dishes into a culinary masterpiece.

- Marcus Samuelsson

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

- Walter Benjamin

We're not just any star stuff, most of which is humdrum hydrogen and listless helium. Our bodies include fancier ingredients like carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, and a few other herbs and spices.

- Seth Shostak

Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

- Rachel Bilson

I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices.

- Rachael Ray

I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.

- Padma Lakshmi

Ounce for ounce, herbs and spices have more antioxidants than any other food group.

- Michael Greger

When you're in Portuguese-African Brazil, or Lisbon, or Mozambique, sometimes piri piri is used as a condiment. Sometimes piri piri is just spices from a jar, and sometimes it's made with garlic, olive oil, cilantro, parsley, and some light chilies.

- Marcus Samuelsson

Cooking turkey every year doesn't have to be monotonous - I want people to always mix it up using different spices and preparations.

- Marcus Samuelsson

Spices, of course, are essential.

- Marcus Samuelsson

I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

- Abigail Washburn

Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.

- L'Wren Scott

I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.

- Joe Perry

A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can't live like that.

- Jill Scott

But obviously you don't want to just be the guy who comes in and sort of spices up every movie. So yeah, definitely moving into more of a leading man role would be great, but on my own terms.

- Danny McBride

Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'

- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

- Calvin Trillin

I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

- Aarti Sequeira

I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.

- Aarti Sequeira