Quotes About Hospitality

This thing happened where I noticed anytime I got together with four friends or more, the conversation goes to food.

People love giving cooks spoons, I've noticed. Or, at least, they love giving them to me.

I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.

A delicious meal cooked by a colleague for many others nourishes not only the body but also the soul.

We do believe that your home can make your life easier, but there needs to be something that wells you up inside - whether it's that you can see your family growing and expanding, and it has the perfect nursery, or maybe that you want to be that neighborhood hub where all the kids in the community come over, and they can play.

Don't eat the bar nuts.

I had a day off, and I was walking down the street one day, and this Mercedes pulls up alongside me, and Alec Guinness leaned out and said, 'What are you doing, Kenny?' I said, 'I'm just walking around,' and he said, 'Do you want to come and see an oasis with my wife and I?' There was nothing arrogant or flash about him at all.

Entertaining those who come to see me is my objective.

Even for myself, Ive been lucky enough to walk around Glasgow with my family and you see all the different nationalities and different establishments - whether thats restaurants, businesses - and its obvious that people have come from all over the world to make this city a great city.

Obviously, everyone's different, but I love just settling down and having a barbecue with my friends at the house.

I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California.

I like living on my own. I'm happy for a man to come over. I'll cook for him; he can spend the night occasionally, but then I want him to leave. I'm too independent.

The evidence of the early church suggests that the community of followers ate together regularly and often, and that in their eating they tried to bear witness to Christ's way of dwelling on earth.

manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.

And it enjoyed one other distinction: The Hilton had been, since the day it opened, one of the few civilized establishments in Turkey where a well-heeled gentleman and a courageous lady could obtain a room without being asked for a marriage certificate.

would very much like to see you. We await your company at supper on May 19.

She likes us," said Umbo. "I know, I could feel it too," said Rigg. "She's really glad to have us here. I think she loves us like her own children." "Whom she murdered and cut up into the stew." "They were delicious.

You honor our humble abode,' said Bean. 'I do, don't I,' said Peter with a smile.

The house always smells like good food," said Piotr. "It's the perfume of love.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Terence's idea of roughing it consisted of pork pie, veal pie, cold roast beef, a ham, pickles, pickled eggs, pickled beets, cheese, bread and butter, ginger beer and a bottle of port. It was possibly the best meal I had ever had in my life.

The reverend waited for her to be seated and then he bowed his head and blessed the food and the table and the people sitting at it. He went on at some length and blessed everything all the way up to the country and then he blessed some other countries as well and he spoke about war and famine and the missions and other problems in the world with particular reference to Russia and the jews and cannibalism and he asked it all in Christ's name amen and raised up and reached for the cornbread.

They produced tobacco and papers and passed them to him not ceremoniously but with that deprecatory gesture of humility which country people confer in a look, a lift of the hand.