Quotes About Hospitality

I smiled into the air the way I smiled when customers unbuckled their belts, and I made my eyes laugh as if everything were some version of a good time.

value simplicity in all things, never serve any aperitif but Champagne. Hard liguor requires a bar, special paraphernalia, and a variety of glasses, as well as messy shaking or stirring. More important, it numbs more than it tickles the taste buds. When you've spent time and money preparing delicious food for your guests, the last thing you want is to render them unable to taste it. That will eliminate one of the most important topics of conversation!~

Entertaining is an act of friendship and cooking is an act of love.

A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told her, "is time to be drinking tea.

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

she instructs Rose to put the mousse over some hot water, to keep it warm for her own 'luncheon'. It's

fried eggs and buttered toast and

Doris was getting No. 4 ready for a new guest. The floor did not trouble her much, but she spent quite a long time on the taps and the veneered top of the dressing-table. Dusting and polishing she liked—things that showed—but those bits of fluff and dried mud at the bottom of the wardrobe she just pushed back into a corner. There was no means of getting them out, anyway, with that ridge at the front. Furniture was always made as inconvenient as possible. Doris was used to that.

It's not salvation that I have to offer - but something more like hot soup.

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.

Oh, you have a kitchen! I'm gonna like this place very much.

Furniture was scanty - demountable tables and benches eased only by "bankers," cushions or embroidered cloths. Usually the noble host alone had a chair; hence our chairman is the person who presides at meetings.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

I don't trust anyone who's nice to me but rude to the waiter. Because they would treat me the same way if I were in that position.

My thatched hut; the whole sky Is its roof The mountains are its hedge, And it has the sea for a garden. I'm inside with nothing at all, Not even a bag, And yet there are visitors who say " It's hidden behind a bamboo door" — Muso Soseki

Even though we know our enemies, but we still welcome them with open hands.

Great chefs always have to wait for orders. They adapt to all circumstances.

Wherever he went, he was celebrating the arrival of God's kingdom, as often as not by partying with people who would normally be excluded because of their apparently shady moral background. Wherever

Love', in the early Christian sense, is something you do, giving hospitality and practical help to those in need, particularly to other Christians who are poor, sick or hungry.

Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.

Elena wondered if Michaela was waiting to be served. Snorting inwardly at the idea, she poured her own coffee—and, because she was feeling generous, and okay, maybe because she wanted to irritate Michaela—Raphael's as well. Then she put down the carafe.

I don't want visitors." "We're not visitors. We're bears.

I am very thankful that man took one look at me showing with a baby coming along, with my hair falling down, and the broom lying at a mound of broken glass, and supper boiling over on the stove, April wearing a dirty pinafore screaming for me to hold her, and just then the baby in my arms spit up all over me, and he said, You know . . .I'd be kindly obliged if you'd let me have supper some other time.

Sándwiches de ensaladilla —dijo con voz normal, abriendo paquetes envueltos con papel de aluminio— y de queso con kétchup. Plátanos y pastel de especias. —Sonrió—. No puedo garantizar la calidad del pastel porque es el primero que hago y mi abuela ha tenido que darme indicaciones hasta el final. También traigo café. Seguro que preferirías tomar vino, pero no me llegaba el dinero y a veces no se creen que tenga dieciocho años.