Maya Angelou Quotes

Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people.

I love restaurants, and I love cooking.

I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

Cooking is always very romantic!

I love to cook. I love to cook for myself and my husband and big groups. I find it very relaxing, and I love socializing around a dinner table.

Food is a passion. Food is love.

I love to cook for people. I equate food with love.

I think I grew up with the idea that there was something comforting about preparing food.

That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.

I don't cook, and I don't care to, but Gabrielle Hamilton made me realize that food is about love and connection. And she has had a hell of an interesting life.

Cooking is the ultimate giving!

One of the great gifts that you can give people is to cook for them.

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.

For me, cooking is an extension of love.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

I cannot starve myself. I'm a foodie! I make fabulous pastas, Indian food, parathas and club sandwiches!

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

I love food, all food, everything about food. I enjoy going to the market and having what's in front of me - what's fresh, seasonal - tell me what I'm cooking.

I have always loved food. I began cooking for my family as a young girl, and to this day, it's one of my greatest pleasures in life.

I prefer eating to cooking.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.

Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother.

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.