Quotes of: Kitchen-table Keyword

One really interesting thing for me was learning about kitchen etiquette, and the differences between an Indian kitchen and a French one. They're different in atmosphere, and also in how chefs maneuver within them.

Manish Dayal

I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink.

Timothy West

God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't do in good conscience is leave the table. Or demand that someone else not be at the table.

Gene Robinson

Hub: You know what I don't like 'bout houseguests? [slams fist on table] Hub: Dinner table Chit-Chat Chit-Chat

Secondhand Lions

this is how you smile to someone you don't like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don't like at all; this is how you smile to someone you like completely; this is how you set a table for tea; this is how you set a table for dinner; this ...

At the Bottom of the River

The goose goes so often into the kitchen till at last she sticks to the spit.

Danish

Spread the table and contention will cease.

English

My mom was sitting at the kitchen table. She’d set her coffee down, making a noise that made me look her way. I’d begun to notice her less and less often, like her colors were fading and blending in with walls. She was shrinking. Or maybe her sph...

Glass Girl

I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information....my mother called me to set the table for dinner. She sat me down in the kitchen, and under the classic caveat of 'loving each other very,...

I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Many people are partial to the notion that . . . all writers are somehow mere vessels for Truth and Beauty when they compose. That we are not really in This is a variation on that twee little fable that writers like to pass off on gullible readers, t...

Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books

The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting my dad's iPod on the speaker dock, and a Bob Dylan song came on, the notes familiar. I went into the living room, hitting the switch there, then...

What Happened to Goodbye

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef

What does an introvert do when he's left alone? He stays alone.

Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant : Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone

I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It’s the living. Those of us left behind.

The Kitchen Daughter

I don't think I remember my first memory

My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut

You see what power is – holding someone else’s fear in your hand and showing it to them

The Kitchen God's Wife

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.

Linda's Kitchen: Simple and Inspiring Recipes for Meals Without Meat

I get nonplussed by all the Fifties retro-revival aesthetic. Would we really want to be in our pinnies in our kitchen weeping? I find the kitchen, housewifey aesthetic repugnant.

Romola Garai

In an Indian kitchen, the focus is on getting the job or dish done right in whatever way possible; however, in a French kitchen there's a clear hierarchy, and a chef has to know where their skills are and not go beyond them.

Manish Dayal

In my household, everything happens in the kitchen. My parents have this pretty big home, and it doesn't matter how big it is, we will all squeeze ourselves in the kitchen and just chat while my mom or dad cooks.

Selenis Leyva

I love doing kitchen renovations where we're opening up the kitchen and creating open-concept main floors. I think that's one renovation that really changes the way people live in their homes.

Candice Olson