Lidia Bastianich Quotes

Food nourishes you, brings people together, and I feel that anybody can bond over food.

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

If you are what you eat, then you are shaped by what you share as you eat.

I would say, probably 7 or 8 years into my cooking career, it stopped being about just food for me. Food's really fun, but I've always been about people, and I realized that food is just a really convenient tool for me to connect people and bring them together.

My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets on - and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner.

I'm interested in food and sharing my passion with a community of like-minded people. All of the celebrity stuff that comes along with that is just an incidental byproduct of being able to do what I love for a living.

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.

Food is kind of the conduit that brings people together.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

I love watching people enjoying food. It's very relaxing for me to cook.

Yeah, well, food is always a part of everything.

I like people.

Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

I find buying a bicycle is a great way to stay in touch with people.

The dialogue and conversation about food is everywhere - television, chat rooms, social media outlets and among everyday conversations.

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

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

My aunt and uncle would come over when my mom was making this, or we would go over there when they were making that. That's what food is.

I love people. I enjoy people.

It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.

There's something really wonderful about a party where you help yourself. Of course, first you get what you really want. But 'family style' service also really encourages people to connect with one another.

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

I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the nuts and bolts of this country who help hold up the world.