Danny Meyer Quotes

'Encores!' is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be.

I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

Turkeys are perfect for feeding larger gatherings.

My husband and I have very similar desires when we're entertaining. We want everybody to feel comfortable and welcome, to know they can kick off their shoes and be able to come right in.

The kitchen is a place I know well. It's my favorite room wherever I am living, and it has to be completely open and social.

Your home is a kind of a reflection of your family, your life, where you're at, where you want to be, so I love to entertain people in it.

There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.

If I host something, even if it's just dinner at my house, I like the event to move. So that means cocktails in the family room, and then moving outside and having appetizers on the patio, and then moving to dinner at the dining table. It's just the idea of the event being curated to every little detail.

I love cooking and having people over and it means you don't have to get a babysitter.

Thanksgiving Day, we do a huge lunch. Big family, like, 60 people, we get together. Everybody brings a covered dish, everybody brings a dessert, and we go all out.

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

We didn't invent anything new. Hospitality has been around forever.

I love cooking and having friends over for dinner, so a beautiful table to sit around is a must.

I like to greet anyone who comes to my house with a lot of positivity and peace.

Everybody that's come to Memphis has been welcome with open arms.

If you have a guy over, and there's a whole bunch of china from your wedding, it's not a good idea.

If you're coming to dinner at our house, you know you're gonna be well-fed.

I love my living room: it's the heart of my home where I get to chill and spend time with family and friends.

All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.

Our kitchen is warm; it's who we are. And it has everything. Honestly, I could get rid of the rest of the house and just live in the kitchen.

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home.