Kate Christensen

Of course, eating broccoli raw, nutritionally and aesthetically speaking, is no doubt the best way of all. Raw broccoli makes a delectable salad when sliced into thin strips on a mandolin, marinated in lemon-mustard vinaigrette, then tossed with toasted pecans or hazelnuts, halved cherry tomatoes, and fresh minced basil.

American Novelist

Martha Stewart

I am often asked the question: 'What is your favorite type of food?' Although I always answer Japanese, the real response should be and is pierogi, the delectable Polish dumplings that my mother, Big Martha, made so well in many incarnations: potato, sweet cabbage, blueberry, peach, plum, and apricot.

Entertainer

Lucretius

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

Roman Poet

Stacey D'Erasmo

As lightly toned by reality as the women on 'Sex and the City,' the bold, soigne characters on 'The L Word' suggest that L is also for limerence, that rapturous state of early love when the entire world is glowing and delectable.

Marquis de Sade

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

French Novelist

Erin Morgenstern

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.

American Writer

Natalie Jeremijenko

I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship to our ecosystem, and there is something delectable and intriguing about it.

Australian Artist

Maurice Blanchot

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

French Writer

Beverley Nichols

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

English Writer

Lizzy Caplan

I find reality television to be so delectable.

American Actress

Use 'delectable' to express sensory delight, mostly related to taste and smell.

Sensory Pleasure

'Delectable' makes descriptions more vivid, indicating something is especially delicious.

Enhances Descriptions

Although often used for food, 'delectable' can describe any delightful smell.

Not Just Food

'Delectable' highlights the charming aspects of non-food-related things or experiences.

Charm and Appeal

Use 'delectable' when describing visually pleasing scenes or objects.

Visual Delight

It can be used figuratively to describe delightful concepts or ideas.

Figurative Use

 One of these creatures is thought to possess the world’s most painful insect sting. If you were to guess, would it the ant that forages in rainforest canopies? The bee that protects a hive of delectable honey? Or the wasp that paralyzes tarantulas?

The world’s most painful...

 go after larger meals up to an including grasshopper mice like this one the giant centipede finds the babies especially delectable easily devouring one by itself the centipede is on the prowl the grasshopper mice are ready and willing

Centipede vs....

 is really wiping bluefin ecologically off the planet. Now bluefin, in general, goes to one Japan. Some of you may be guilty of having contributed to the demise of bluefin. They're delectable muscle, rich in fat --

Barbara Block: Tagging...

 and his friends it's a delectable morsel taboo or not the hunters can already taste their feast if a tradition holds that those who hunt get first claim to their quarry a fortunate custom when pickings are small

Would You Eat Dead Rat?...

 that's why we have apples called Pink Lady, Sweet Tango, Kiku, and EverCrisp. The more we work with nature's bounty to breed new cultivars, the more creative and delectable these names will become.

Why are there so many...

 delectable strawberries ah lass a juicy orange and pear as well did it also have an apple and cherry yes fair maiden Kiwis and ripe melons too but not a vegetable in sight

To Remember or Not to...

 in the far reaches of Papua New Guinea the Caron tribesmen hunt a delectable dish it has fur fangs and claws and it's not something most Westerners with dare

Eating Bats PIPE National...

 in the far reaches of Papua New Guinea the Caron tribesman hunt a delectable dish it has fur fangs and claws and it's not something most Westerners with dare

 go after larger meals up to an including grasshopper mice like this one the giant centipede finds the babies especially delectable easily devouring one by

 delectable helpless hatchling Gators the skunk hones in on the hatchlings cries Gator mom is having none of us