#dinner

I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start. ↗

— Ina Garten

#because #dinner #dinner party #drink #face

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken. ↗

— Ina Garten

#chicken #dinner #large #like #making

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good. ↗

— Ina Garten

#bad #buy #cooking #dinner #economy

Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have! ↗

— Ina Garten

#dinner #feel #guests #guilty #hard

I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that. ↗

— Ina Garten

#dinner #drinks #during #frank #frank sinatra

I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted. ↗

— Ina Garten

#bedtime #coffee #course #definitely #dessert

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#buying #child #dinner #only #wants

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways. ↗

— Al Lewis

#boulevard #dinner #every #fifty #friday

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with. ↗

— Maya Lin

#always #american #ate #comfortable #dinner

Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected. ↗

— Michael Symon

#bonded #bunch #connected #cried #dinner