Grapes

"Always eat grapes downwards - that is, always eat the best grape first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last."

""A sack," Baudolino explained, like a man who knows a trade well, "is like a grape harvest: you have to divide the tasks. There are those who press the grapes, those who carry off the must in the tuns, those who cook for others, others who go to fetch the good wine from last year.... a sack is a serious job"."

"The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge."

"The grapes in Uzbekistan are incredible fruit. They seem to have a life of their own. They’re called “the bridesmaid’s little finger,” and that’s about the size of them. They’re very long, and green, and they’re absolutely the most delicious."

"And the grapes, now do you count each? No, of course not. What strikes you is their clear, amber colour and the bloom which models the form by softening it."

"Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's."

"Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?"

"Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva."