Carved Quote by Nancy Gibbs

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

— Don DeLillo

My mom is a great cook, and family dinners were a must growing up, even if that meant eating at 10 p.m. when my…

— Daphne Oz

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from…

— Mary Antin

Growing up, I didn't have great family dinners. We sat down every night, and my mother cooked food, but it was always about who…

— Laurie David

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

— Anthony Bourdain

I was raised on T.V. dinners because in those days, they were considered a well-balanced meal. And when I was sick, my mother fed…

— Lindsay Wagner

For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding…

— Larry McMurtry

Growing up, I loved looking at the photos in my mother's old Betty Crocker cookbook: the chocolate cakes, the cookie house, even the cheese…

— Celeste Ng

“It took me many years to appreciate that our annual ravioli-making family tradition was an art form. Like sculptures, music, and graphic design, preparing…

— Laura Ballerini

“Well, I declare!: The tradition of “family style” eating, sitting at a long table and taking your portion from a large communal bowl, started…

— Deborah Ford

Some of the best dishes I can remember are from my childhood. Sometimes, whenever I want to feel like a kid again, I just…

— Rachel Hollis

My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the…

— Willard Scott