Dinnertime Quotes

“The shared meal is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life,
the place where our children learn the art of conversation and acquire
the habits of civilization: sharing, listening, taking turns, navigating
differences, arguing without offending. What have been called the
“cultural contradictions of capitalism”—its tendency to undermine
the stabilizing social forms it depends on—are on vivid display today
at the modern American dinner table, along with all the brightly colored packages that the food industry has managed to plant there.”
― Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

“The best meals are those prepared by loving hands.”
― Ken Poirot

“Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I could be back in time to light the candles and set the table for dinner.” ♥ Gladys Taber.”
― Gladys Taber

“Dinner is the most like jazz of all the meals, in that jazz is part form and part improvisation. You decide what you’re going to have, and then while you’re preparing it – because it’s the end of the day and you have the time – you have the room to consider things about it, to change things about it. You make it something new. “I think I’ll add a little chili powder.”
~ Seth Asa, age 37
From Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012”
― Deborah L. Halliday

“You can’t forget how important coming together is, whether it be a mom and a son, a dad and a daughter, whether the family be ten people, or twenty people, or a million people. Dinnertime is the perfect time for that. Dinnertime is the perfect time when you can sit down, you can offer thanks to your kids for making you laugh, or to your parents for supporting you, or to a god for looking out for you, or to whomever you want. You can just close your eyes and open them again and realize that you have the opportunity everyday to change your life, or change someone else’s. Dinnertime is a great time to think about that.

~ Dillon, age 22
From Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012”
― Deborah L. Halliday, Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life 1912 to 2012

“He listens when I talk.”
― Gwenda Bond, Triple Threat

“That night, it's my turn to choose dinner. I know exactly what I want---McDonald's. French fries and Bai Big Macs are plated and served on priceless china inlaid with golden chrysanthemums. Melon soda and chocolate shakes are dumped into crystal goblets. The whole palace smells like fried food.”
― Emiko Jean, Tokyo Dreaming

“Dinner is the most like jazz of all the meals, in that jazz is part form and part improvisation. You decide what you’re going to have, and then while you’re preparing it – because it’s the end of the day and you have the time – you have the room to consider things about it, to change things about it. You make it something new. ‘I think I’ll add a little chili powder.’”
~ Seth Asa, age 37
Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012”
― Deborah L Halliday

“Dinner is the most like jazz of all the meals, in that jazz is part form and part improvisation. You decide what you’re going to have, and then while you’re preparing it – because it’s the end of the day and you have the time – you have the room to consider things about it, to change things about it. You make it something new. “I think I’ll add a little chili powder.”
~ Seth Asa, age 37
From Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012”
― Deborah L. Halliday

“I can smell through my nose a pizza.”
― Wyatt Parish

“Dinner is the most like jazz of all the meals, in that jazz is part form and part improvisation. You decide what you’re going to have, and then while you’re preparing it – because it’s the end of the day and you have the time – you have the room to consider things about it, to change things about it. You make it something new. “I think I’ll add a little chili powder.”
~ Seth Asa, age 37
From Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012”
― Deborah L Halliday

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― 화정마사지 аВам18。넷 〈 아찔한밤 〉수성구마사지창원마사지

“Tables aren’t meant for just one person. That’s a desk. A desk only admits one. And who holds a dinner at a desk anyway?”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“The sequence would go as follows: the butternut-squash soup would be served with white wine (she'd bought a Sancerre at a decent-enough liquor store next to the grocery market). The coq au vin, which she would serve over buttered egg noodles, would go with the Pinot Noir that she'd also brought home. Then, finally, she would flambé the bananas Foster with them looking on--- igniting it dramatically with a tablespoon of the rum that she'd found in the liquor cabinet (no sense in buying a whole bottle for one tablespoon)--- and serve it all over vanilla ice cream.
Who could resist a meal like this? Who, after eating it, wouldn't want these recipes going into their cookbook? Who wouldn't want this to be their legacy?”
― Adam D. Roberts, Food Person