I'll have pot in my home for guests - I'm polite! - but I don't sit around and smoke by myself, ever. Not like I did when I was young.
He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.
It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.
I don't go out much. I have people over, and I cook dinner, or we play the piano, or we watch TV.
My favorite fall or winter lunch is big steaming bowls of soup. I usually invite people for around 12:30 and have two hearty soups like shrimp corn chowder and lentil sausage soup, which can be made a day or two ahead.
I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.
I never have cakes or biscuits. I don't have a sweet tooth at all, and I can't stand chocolates - I find them so sickly. However, I will buy cakes if I'm expecting company.
I just really love having dinner parties and hanging out.
You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.
We built a basic website, and Air Bed and Breakfast was born. Three lucky guests got to stay on a $20 airbed on the hardwood floor. But they loved it. And so did we. We took them on adventures around the city.
If we have friends over for dinner, I do the cooking. I like the pressure of a big meal and the technical challenges of a roast.
Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravitational pull? I don't know, but one thing is for sure: If your friends are going to congregate in your kitchen, you'd better make it as nice as possible.
Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.
Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.
I don't do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I've cooked for the family.
I'm happy to hang out with friends, but I'm not the type who entertains guests, not even at home.
If I had my way, I'd do all my entertaining on the front steps.
I'm very Italian, so I love cooking for friends. Whether it's Valentine's Day and my boyfriend and girlfriends' boyfriends are away, or someone's in town, or someone had a baby, I cook.
One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
I definitely have my Palestinian gene. I love to play host.
I can only cook brown rice and vegetables, so I don't get too many people coming over for dinner parties or anything.
