Jerry Hall Quotes

I love the warmth of apple pie.

Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.

The most beautiful thing in the world is my grandmother's apple pie.

My mom, she cooks the best pound cakes in the world.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

My friends love coming over because they get fed.

I love being at home and cooking and baking.

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.

My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

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.

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

When writing a thank-you if you've had lunch with someone downtown, send an e-mail. If somebody is giving you a dinner party in his or her home and all the work that takes, that person deserves a written thank-you.

There was a period when I had apple pie as a treat every day of the week. I mean, like, a family apple pie.

My mum is your archetypal Asian mum, always feeding people. If there was no food in the cupboard, she'd still manage to rustle up a feast - Bangladeshi food such as pilau rice, curry and korma.

Both of my grandmothers have always been really good bakers, and I was always in the kitchen helping them. Obviously I can't eat a lot of the things that I make, but just baking it and giving it to someone makes me feel really good.

I do really good banana bread. And I make a chocolate cake with fudge icing that's bloody delicious.

Baking is therapy.

Once you have a chocolate-chip cookie with whole-wheat flour, you never go back.

There are so many forms of love. Spending time with friends, love stories. I enjoy showing my love by baking a cake for somebody and writing his or her name on it, and seeing his or her reaction. I love to offer flowers, too!

I used to throw cooking parties in university. Everyone would come over - sometimes you'd just do a mac and cheese, but if you do that better than everyone else, you can get people to come to you.

If you're going to have a piece of pie, have it. I love pecan pie - but it won't be with ice cream; it won't be with whipped cream.

Conversation was irrelevant. Only pie mattered.

I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be entertained.

I found incredible kindness, dignity and hospitality in both Iraq and Afghanistan - am only alive because of it - the most worthwhile lesson of a twenty month walk to these countries was a deepening appreciation of the kindness of strangers.