favorite line about eggplant

Recipes for Health

The Misunderstood Eggplant

Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times

By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN

Published: September 1, 2008

My favorite line about eggplant is from “How to Pick a Peach,” an appreciation of seasonal produce by Russ Parsons. “Let’s get one thing straight: most eggplants are not bitter (even though they have every right to be after everything that has been said about them).”

line

1. 1. Music. One of the five parallel marks constituting a staff.
   2. A sustained melodic or harmonic part in a piece: a rock song with a driving bass line.