Quotes from Damaris Phillips

I really would like to help people get back into the kitchen.

I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too.

The tradition of canning is still very close to my heart; that's why I'm so excited to team up with the Ball Home Canning experts at Newell Brands to share how truly rewarding the process can be.

All we want is food that tastes good, truthfully.

My journey was never hard; it just happened. From the second I held a knife, from the second I was in culinary school, it's all felt too good to be true. 'This cannot be my job, my life. Somebody has to be kidding with me!'

With so many delicious varieties and flavors ranging from subtle to bold, Keebler and Carr's crackers are an unexpectedly genius way to celebrate leftovers and serve up one-of-a-kind recipes.

Where we can, I'd like to cut out sugars. I don't want to make food that is unhealthy.

Cooking is one of those things that is universal to people. And any time you can teach somebody a way to connect with all people, there's so much joy in it. And it is always going to be exciting.

When anybody is just starting the process of cooking, I always say it takes practice, and nobody got to be a great cook on their first try.

It's always good to update your food. It's always exciting to learn and update new flavor profiles.

Growing up, our meals consisted primarily of vegetables, and then we had small amounts of meat.

The real thing people miss in vegetarian cooking is fat. Fat is flavor. It is delicious.

I don't think it exists anymore where you have to be a vegetarian or meat-eater. There's this beautiful gray area that we're all living in now; it just takes some exposure to the different ways to do it.

My husband is a vegetarian. So it has really pushed me as a chef. Just thinking about the food that I really relied on as my hunny-hunting foods, that looks different with a vegetarian.

If you want to eat more vegetarian food, you don't have to become a vegetarian. It doesn't have to be an identity overhaul.