Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes

I like to cook for my friends. It is an act of love because in cooking you can create so many plates and recipes, if you know how to - otherwise you make a mess - but I like it because it's like a ceremony. You cook for your friends and after, you drink wine and play cards.

I love to cook and entertain.

I look at each one of my restaurants, and I want my personality to come out. Some are serious, some are intense when it comes to food and wines, some are meat masters supreme. I enjoy all my guests.

Pot lucks are fun, especially when you encourage your guests to bring dishes that represent their families or cultures.

I just really love having dinner parties and hanging out.

Parties are fun, but they don't create community.

I am a wonderful cook and I like hanging out with people.

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

I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.

Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.

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

A table-full of welcome!

This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more.

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

I adore having people over to my home. My number one reason I love that is because I love to see people at ease with each other.

La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.

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

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.

your lives be as full and happy as ours,and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is always open to any travellers roaming the dusty path between the woodlands and the plains.

Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.

But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man.

It is nasty when you're playing in someone else's house to point out that they don't have enough balls.

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.