Damaris Phillips Quotes

I enjoy cooking for people I am close to.

Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people.

The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.

I love to cook and entertain.

I've always loved to cook, and then my love of it just grew as I got older and started traveling and started entertaining.

I am a wonderful cook and I like hanging out with people.

I love cooking. I love having friends around.

The older I get, and the more I travel in particular, the less I care about what exactly is in the dish than who's cooking it and why.

Cooking is really calming. Sharing food with friends, cooking.

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother.

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.

I love to cook. I love to cook for myself and my husband and big groups. I find it very relaxing, and I love socializing around a dinner table.

It's not a party unless I'm cooking. Some people find entertaining stressful, but it is therapeutic for me; I find it relaxing.

I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself.

If I'm having a party, the easiest and the biggest thing for me to make is a big pot of meatballs.

I hope to use food as a way to connect with people.

My favourite thing is cooking for my friends. There are 13 of us who all met at university. They come round once a week, and I make a huge lasagne.

I would say, probably 7 or 8 years into my cooking career, it stopped being about just food for me. Food's really fun, but I've always been about people, and I realized that food is just a really convenient tool for me to connect people and bring them together.

Cooking is one of those things that is universal to people. And any time you can teach somebody a way to connect with all people, there's so much joy in it. And it is always going to be exciting.

Cooking a fantastic meal is therapeutic. I like the entire process-the chopping, the stirring. At the end, hopefully you get to enjoy a great meal with a friend or loved one.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.