“Like our sauce — we harvest a whole crop of organic tomatoes — 10 tons of tomatoes every year. Can them all, store them in the basement, have like a harvest party when it gets loaded in.”

— James Alefantis

2015 interview http://www.metroweekly.com/2015/04/from-scratch-james-alefantis/

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American chef and restaurateur

James Alefantis American chef and restaurateur

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/san-marzanos-the-bible-of-tomatoes/2013/08/12/85485c1a-fa32-11e2-9bde-7ddaa186b751_story.html

“You like potato and I like po-tah-to,
You like tomato and I like to-mah-to;
Potato, po-tah-to, tomato, to-mah-to –
Let's call the whole thing off!”

Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) American lyricist

"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", Shall We Dance (1937).

“Every age bears its fruits, it's all in knowing how to harvest them.”

Raymond Radiguet (1903–1923) French writer

Tout âge porte ses fruits, il faut savoir les cueillir.
Raymond Radiguet: Le bal du comte d'Orgel. Paris 1924. P. 15.

“God, whose farm is all creation,
take the gratitude we give;
take the finest of our harvest,
crops we grow that all may live.”

John Arlott (1914–1991) English sports commentator and writer

From various hymnals.

“I look like an exploding tomato and shout like a jet engine and every time I see it, it makes me cringe.”

John Sweeney (journalist)

John Sweeney losting his temper with Scientologist Tommy Davis. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7348434.stm

“The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
We must be busy when the corn is ripe”

Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet

Actually from Goethe's Torquato Tasso, Act IV, scene iv, line 63. In the original German:
Ein Tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte:
Man muss geschäftig sein, sobald sie reift.
Misattributed

“The Indian community in Fiji have been here over 120 to 130 years and would be the largest potential field of harvest to proselytize in, but we have not a show because of our examples and behaviours towards them. We need to show them the love of Christ first … before they can respond to Him.”

James Ah Koy (1936) Fijian politician

Maiden speech in the Senate http://www.parliament.gov.fj/hansard/viewhansard.aspx?hansardID=165&viewtype=full, 8 December 2003 (excerpts), Speech in the Senate http://www.parliament.gov.fj/hansard/viewhansard.aspx?hansardID=245&viewtype=full, 26 August 2004 (excerpts)

“Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly from which it reaps a harvest all of tears.”

Aeschylus The Persians

Source: The Persians (472 BC), lines 821–822 (tr. Christopher Collard)

“The moguls created stars and sold them to the public, the way a grocer sold a 39-cent can of tomatoes to his shoppers.”

Zita Johann (1904–1993) actress

Zita Johann obituary http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-zita-johann-1509144.html

“Oneiric values have definitely won out over the others, and I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot. A tomato is also a child's balloon - Surrealism, again, having suppressed the word "like."”

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=baKRHNX7eo0C&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q&f=false
from: Point du Jour (Break of Day; 1934)
Breton's quote is often misquoted as The man who can't visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.
after 1930

“Like our sauce — we harvest a whole crop of organic tomatoes — 10 tons of tomatoes every year. Can them all, store them in the basement, have like a harvest party when it gets loaded in.”

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