Emily Dickinson Quote by Barbara Haber

“Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.”

— Marcel Proust

The podcast by 'The Kitchen Sisters' celebrates the staggering variety of a society of immigrants via its food, from the Sheepherders' Ball in Boise,…

— David Hepworth

“It is the attendance at a great meal, with one too many courses and two too many glasses of wine, that makes civilization spin,…

— John Mariani

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.

— Julian Baggini

“Today, of course, popular culture is on a culinary binge; and so much personal writing is now devoted to gazing back upon the kitchen…

— Laura Shapiro

“The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness.”

— John Green

“Cooking was a passion and sometimes a serious art form, to be shared with a select few.”

— Isabel Vincent

“Culinary historians looking back at the first decades of the twenty-first century will be blessed with vast quantities of material to study, thanks to…

— Laura Shapiro

I'm slightly obsessed with women's history, so I'd love to talk to Emily Dickinson or Louisa May Alcott.

— Sandi Toksvig

“Have you ever been faced with the clear certainty that the culinary arts have a great propensity to rendering themselves unsavory?”

— Nicole Sager

I aspire to be a good dinner party host.

— Sara Cox

“The dinner-table is often the terrain of critical conversations, for it is there one has the better of one's interlocutor. There is no escape…

— Maurice Renard