Nicholas Haslam Quotes

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

If people are asking me for clubbing tips, then they're in real trouble. My clubbing tip is never go to a club, because they're horrible and I hate them. I'm more of a dinner party guy.

I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.

Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.

If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea.

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

My wife and I love to host wine and cheese parties. They are simple and elegant and you don't have to put a lot of effort and time into it.

I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.

I thought I'd be a chef by night and paint by day. Now I just have fabulous dinner parties.

I love cooking and having friends over for dinner, so a beautiful table to sit around is a must.

You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them.

In Spain people have lunch and dinner a lot later - when I return to England I'll have to eat alone at midnight.

Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.

Whether it's a big dinner party or people just coming over to hang out, I just love to spend time with them.

If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?

In fact, I've only been to a couple of other people's dinner parties. But I must admit, I really enjoyed the few I've been to, but I'm not really on that circuit.

For my parents it was all about getting a deal, my dad came to America and he heard of this concept of brunch. He didn't quite know what it was. And he thought it was this other meal that existed between breakfast and lunch. He was kind of like - I remember he sort of was like America has so much food that between breakfast and lunch they have to stop and eat again. They have brunch. It was completely legal it was, like, a legal meal that you could have. I mean, clearly it wasn't the only reason he came to America, but I think it certainly sweetened the pot for him.

When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

I don't give parties, and I'm not in that social scene. I couldn't care less.

"I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box of Twinkies, tossing them into the cart. "And Twinkies." "It is... Except that it's a cookout thrown by my mother." "And?" "And my mother doesn't cook." He looked at me waiting. "At all. My mother doesn't cook at all." "She must cook sometimes." "Nope." "Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just KNOW."