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Quotes About Hospitality

I think a person who arranges the event and orders the food also picks up the check - even the birthday person, even when people at the table insist on paying for the birthday person.
~ Carolyn Hax
The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.
~ Daniel Handler
The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.
~ Laurie Colwin
Hot air balloons are terrific to shoot from, although they have become very expensive, as has most lodging and food in the Napa Valley.
~ Peter Menzel
Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.
~ Willard Spiegelman
Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.
~ John Cleese
Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm.
~ Charlie Day
The Italians seem to have a better attitude with kids and the food is great!
~ Anthony Bourdain
Food is a great way of communicating.
~ Jan Karon
I can't deliver lines, but I can talk about food all night long.
~ Tom Colicchio
I like working with the public, I like working with food, and I like making cash.
~ Amy Sedaris
Chowder breathes reassurace. It steams consolation.
~ Clementine Paddleford
I enjoy wine collecting and great food.
~ Deep Roy
Prepare your food attractively and serve it nicely.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.
~ William Wordsworth
Music knits people together in some strange way. Same thing with food.
~ Dwight Henry
I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.
~ Emeril Lagasse
I know the community mostly for its art and culture... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants." "They make you feel like taking off your shoes... it feels like home.
~ Erykah Badu
Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well.
~ Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs...
~ Charles Dickens
Well, Southerners like to eat well. You see, it's an event when it's done right.
~ Unknown
Many a one has been comforted in their sorrow by seeing a good dish come upon the table.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan