Lidia Bastianich Quotes

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

We're social beings, and food is one of the things we can use three times a day to connect with family or with friends.

I hope to use food as a way to connect with people.

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

The social aspects of food are really important to me - my favourite food-related memories are meals I've shared with my family and friends. Posting Instagram pictures of your food and then seeing your friends comment on it is just a modern form of that kinship.

Get your friends together, even if it's just once a week or twice a month, and make dinner together.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother.

Kitchens are for conversation. They're not just for cooking; they're for conversations.

I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.

Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.

Los Angeles is such a widespread city, sometimes it's hard to see your friends, and food is a great way to get together - it's a great way of giving love.

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

Shared dining fortifies us.

I'm a fan of people getting together.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

It's human nature to want to be with other people.

Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

Sports can bring people together in a way that politics cannot.

The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

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