Quotes About Tradition

There is so much more than ingredients that go into home cooking. A home-cooked meal includes so much love and recipes that have been passed down through generations, and that is what I truly appreciate.

I'm a fan of the hand-me-down recipes - friends, family, bake sales, community cookbooks - those are the recipes that have withstood the test of time and fed many hungry fans.

I've always been very open about how my mother taught me to cook and how I'm delighted to share my family's recipes.

One of the best things about 'The Chefs' Line' has been seeing how these generations-honed recipes fare when they go up against professional ones.

A lot of my recipes I take from foods my grandmother used to cook, things she prepared for family reunions.

My great-grandmother taught my mom to cook and she passed down the recipes to me.

I am learning cooking... all my mother's recipes.

My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!

My Shabbat dinner is not to be reckoned with.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

I'm really proud to say that in the recorded history of our family, we've never had a divorce or any kind of homosexual relationship.

My predecessors in this business of acting were fully convinced their work would never be recorded, except in the form of reviews or paintings.

Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past.

I have no ancestral link to the mountains. But I really do feel close to mountain culture. Their ways of food, of thinking. The way they hang out with no recording devices and just sing songs with each other.

I accept recording with everybody, as long as it's with a mariachi.

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you're familiar with the famous Hatfield-McCoy family feud back in the 1860s, '70s and '80s in the United States, my family was an integral part of that.

Growing up, we had folk records.

When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day.

To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.