Quotes About Family

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.

I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.

Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen.

I did want to share with you one of the greatest lessons I've learned over the years cooking for my kids - there is enormous value in bringing children into the kitchen.

I love being at home and creating in the kitchen.

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.

I really look up to writers who are able to write compressed, single-scene stories, where everything happens in a kitchen. But I just can't think that way. For me it would be impossible to write a story where I didn't know what someone's parents did and what their grandparents did and who they used to date.

Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.

I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept.

The kitchen is the heart of our home.

Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it... if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.

I feel like it's so important to get your little ones' hands dirty in the kitchen. It gives them kitchen confidence, and it makes them feel accomplished.

The kitchen is definitely the room that gets used the most in my house.

It's really great to get your kids involved in the kitchen. Not only will they have an appreciation for food, but their palates will expand.

My kitchen is an imitation, really, of my mum's, except for the big American fridge.

Both of my grandmothers have always been really good bakers, and I was always in the kitchen helping them. Obviously I can't eat a lot of the things that I make, but just baking it and giving it to someone makes me feel really good.

I love to cook, man, I'm the short-order cook of the house. It's also my creativity. The kitchen is my space. I'm always cooking, I'm always making something.

I'm always cooking and can be found in the kitchen rustling up something for myself and the boys.

I do love cooking, but our kitchen is nothing fancy or hi-tech.

I got used to certain things that normal kids don't get used to, like, when my mother went into the kitchen for things other than just cooking. I could hear the bottle open up and I could hear the chugs. Then the next morning, none of it was discussed. You grow up feeling crazy.

We host Thanksgiving in my mother's apartment in New York. I don't know if you've seen many New York apartment kitchens, but they are not known for spaciousness.

You can invite people over or make your kids their favorite food - that usually inspires me in the kitchen.

I think I am very fortunate to have my sister, who is always there to guide me and my food and lodging has been taken care of. Since my basic need of life is secure, when it comes to working, I never appeared like a desperate struggler who needs the job to run the kitchen.