Steve Chen Quotes

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.

This thing happened where I noticed anytime I got together with four friends or more, the conversation goes to food.

I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.

Steve Zahn and I like to go to dinner, and we love to go to Chef Donald Link's Herb Saint.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

Food was always a focus for us, lyrically.

I come from a family of great cooks and big eaters.

When you sit down to eat at a table, you are ready to take in nourishment - we all need to eat to live. Even in primal tribes, people ate together. It's the opening for friendship.

I belong to a Bohri Muslim family, and for us, food is our biggest celebration. We are used to elaborate five- to six-course meals.

Food is the common language for all of us.

Food is a reflection of who you are as a person.

To know a community is to know its food.

The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

Normally I don't care so much about food. I'm more interested in the people I'm with.

Food not only connects us at the idyllic dinner table setting with family and friends: it is also part of our mundane, daily transit to and from work.

My sons, Azaan and Zahaan, make for scintillating company; they are both foodies. The three of us love spending time trying out new joints and cuisines.

The house is always full, and we're always cooking - outside, inside, for six, eight, a dozen, 20 people.

We Georgians are really into food and drink. We would never have finger food at a party or a wedding - celebrations are always one long meal, on one long table, with endless toasts.