Logan Mankins Quotes

I love being at home, having friends over.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

I like to think of myself as the host at a party, and, if everybody is having a good time, so much the better.

I throw 14 parties a week.

My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays.

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.

I'm a homebody, but I make people come to me, like, 'Everyone just come over, and we can have fun at my house.' I love to entertain.

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 don't think I've ever hosted anything in my life.

I love to cook. I love to entertain.

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

I think for Thanksgiving particularly I've always, one of the fun things for me about doing a big dinner is having friends and family so we've always done that, and even through our other holidays like having a mix of friends and family, and if you don't have your family nearby, or it's tough for you, find a friend and go and eat with them.

I'm not very good with drink recipes. If I'm entertaining, I like to come up with a house drink for the evening, one thing I'll make for the whole evening of the whole month.

I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. People tend to expect to spend their holidays with us, which is lovely and an expectation I carry with pride.

It's stylish to have people over. But unstylish to make them bring food. It's so tacky, making everybody appear at the door with a dish. Better to order in, use a caterer or bring prepared food into your kitchen.

Fans talk to me about how 'Country Christmas' has become a holiday tradition for them and that they all watch to start their holiday season. To be a part of people's holiday traditions is a real joy.

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

I like to have a lot of girls over and play loud music.

If you're going to be hosting any event or a performance or having dinner with people after a performance, it is work, but it's also social: food and a glass of wine would be involved often.

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 people over and it means you don't have to get a babysitter.

The house is always full, and we're always cooking - outside, inside, for six, eight, a dozen, 20 people.

I love to have a dinner party. I love to have people over. I like the feeling it creates in my home - having guests laughing and telling their stories - and I put a lot of thought into it. I plan my menu kind of depending on whatever mood I'm in.