Damaris Phillips Quotes

My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.

I've become a produce snob. I like to eat food that's in season.

I love how Jamie Oliver makes seasonal, local foods in a rustic way, without a lot of fuss.

Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy.

You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.

I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal.

My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

Homemade stuffing is my favorite thing about Thanksgiving. I wish people served it more than just once a year.

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.

For me, summer hasn't really started until tomatoes reappear in local farmers' markets.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side.

I like day-after-Christmas omelets, day-after Christmas pizzas... Or you take croissant rolls, put gravy on top, turkey, mashed potatoes, cheese, more gravy. That sounds good!

I don't like turkey. I mean, I do. But I don't like it on Thanksgiving. I don't need it. There are about 20 other dishes that get put on a table or a counter or that stay warming on the stove that I'd rather eat than turkey.

There's something about fall that very much translates into those nurturing, nostalgic food flavors. It's the season where you can really make the marriage of fresh produce with spices and aromatics.

In California, you're on a first-name basis with fruit. You take a beautiful Blenheim, you don't want to mess with it.

You can't have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side.

I think it's fun to serve comfort food because it's an instant ice-breaker. If somebody's expecting fancy food, and you whip out some fried chicken, they feel like, you know, they can put their elbows on the table, and the etiquette police aren't going to come out.

You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.

I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.

He took the Who’s feast, he took the Who pudding, he took the roast beast. He cleaned out that ice box as quick as a flash. Why, the Grinch even took their last can of Who hash.

I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.

I've got to find local farmers and get natural foods.

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.