Jeff Smith Quotes

My friends love coming over because they get fed.

I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.

If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.

I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. My husband is a really fantastic cook. His mother is Italian and if you walk into our house, we assume you're starving.

I love to eat cucumber sticks with yogurt. It's a great snack to have at home, especially when I'm having house guests.

My husband and I have very similar desires when we're entertaining. We want everybody to feel comfortable and welcome, to know they can kick off their shoes and be able to come right in.

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.

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

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

When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit.

The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon where we dine.

There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.

I chop 'em into salad and my name ain't Caesar.

If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other.

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.

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

It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.

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.

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.