Quote by Josie Brown

“Clean up the kitchen. Check Leave dishes in the sink. Check Pack up the tarp and equipment.”

— Cassie Page

“Guests aren't trouble[...]they're a blessing. Having no one to cook for, now, that's a sadness.”

— Laini Taylor

“I was lounging in the kitchen, enjoying the small fermata between emptying the dishwasher and reloading it. It's a glamorous life.”

— Abbi Waxman

“You're my guest, and hosts generally do feed their guests, you know." Her natural ebullience returning, she flashed him an impish smile. "Even when…

— Sabrina Jeffries

“I don’t eat food with silverware—I use sponges. I always clean my plate.”

— Jarod Kintz

“We are told not to leave food on the table overnight: it draws the dead.”

— Anita Barrows

“There's a bond that forms over a sink, where the silences seem natural and the conversation is broken up with practical exchanges about where…

— Lisa Beazley

“... to me, a restaurant with no menu, headed by a chef I trusted, would be ideal. In such a utopia, guests could specify…

— Phoebe Damrosch

ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn. "Eat arsenic? Yes, all you get," Consenting,…

— Ambrose Bierce

“sit down and take dinner with us - a guest that is safe from repeating his visit, can generally be made welcome...”

— Emily Brontë

“After three days houseguests and food begins to stink!”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.”

— Julie Powell