Simon McBurney Quotes

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

How I show love has always been through food. That, for me, has been the foundation of how I express gratitude for anybody around me.

For me, cooking is an extension of love.

Cooking can cure almost anything.

The way to anybody's heart is through a thoughtfully-prepared, beautifully-executed, lovingly-presented meal.

Food is a passion. Food is love.

I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.

I think perhaps we all cook to feed some kind of hunger in ourselves. I am nourished by being surrounded by family and friends, by creating something delicious for them, by nurturing them.

Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it.

Cooking skills aside, my mother is an exceptional nurturer.

I'm fascinated by food. Food is love, isn't it?

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.

My sister would say I'm a feeder because I like cooking for people.

And, I believe that one of the most loving things you can do is prepare a meal for someone you love. None of which I know how to do!

By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them.

You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.

I love to cook for people. I equate food with love.

That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.

We never got much in the way of material things, but if you can be spoiled by good cooking, my mom spoiled me three times a day all my life.

Food strengthens my family bond while it nourishes my body.

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.

My mother only ever said two things. She said,'I don't know, dear.'And she said,'Can I get you a sandwich, honey?