#arty

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#book #each #eras #fear #history

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#brave #death #die #enough #let us

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#other #party #quickest #rendering #win

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

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that. ↗

— Joe Wilson

#american people #become #fact #fairness #fiction

I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer. ↗

— Ina Garten

#everyone #far #i #killer #large

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

If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing. ↗

— Ina Garten

#choose #cocktail #different #different things #end

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. ↗

— Ina Garten

#around #big #bowls #corn #day

The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it. ↗

— Ina Garten

#anything #carve #cooked #everything #fun