Couscous Quotes

the ingredients for lunch: ciabatta bread, couscous salad with apricots, ham, and a goat's cheese flan, ~ Marcia Willett

I would love to take a cooking class from Gandhi. Maybe I could teach him how to cook, and he could teach me his message. I wouldn't mind learning how to make couscous from scratch from a North African woman, either. ~ Marcus Samuelsson

I turn on my computer to search Craigslist for apartment listings. The wireless window pops up, and I realize with some regret that all I know about my neighbours is their wireless network names: Krypton, Space balls, Couscous, and Scarlet. From this I can tell little else than that they're fans of Superman, Mel Brooks, Middle Eastern cuisine, and the colour red. I look out my window, wondering whose house is whose and what private food and entertainment consumption occurs in each and how I will never get to know. ~ Jonathan Goldstein

You really are a badass, edgy guy who tells it like it is ... about couscous. ~ Jim Norton

If you want to lose weight, whole-wheat bread, couscous, and quinoa are evil. ~ Jorge Cruise

SN: what was under the glass tonight?

Me: Some sort of delicious fish and the big couscous. What's that called?

SN: Israeli.

Me: Ha, I know. Just wanted to make you use your shift key. I want to get you a T-shirt that says "No proper noun left uncapitalized."

SN: and I'm the weirdo. ~ Julie Buxbaum

I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too. ~ Dusty Baker

Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there. ~ Yotam Ottolenghi

A moment of reserve. "That was it? The whole story?"
"Yes. God, you're right. That was pants."
I sidestep another aggressive couscous vendor. "Pants?"
"Rubbish. Crap. Shite."
Pants. Oh heavens, that's cute. ~ Stephanie Perkins