#potato

So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#causes #damaged #did #discovering #function

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#baker #father #grounded #man #meat-and-potatoes

In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato. ↗

— David F. Houston

#country #crop #food #half #increase

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#bad #bread #eating #ever #food

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#feel #hands #i #i feel #i feel like

I saw him do a No More Potatoes Dance, after he saw me stuff the last of the mashed potatoes in my pocket.
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— Jarod Kintz

#dancing #funny #greed #greedy #humor

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#desert #find #hardly #into #place

I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything. ↗

— Adam Garcia

#back #couch #eat #get #i

In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork. ↗

— Ina Garten

#body #comforting #fresh #go #light

The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself. ↗

— Ina Garten

#allowed #been #bread #carbohydrates #cookies