47 Lidia Bastianich Quotes for You to Enjoy

Lidia Bastianich

American Chef

Born: Feb 21, 1947

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Holidays - any holiday - are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together. Lidia Bastianich

Great Family Together Opportunity Focus Great Opportunity Any Holiday Holidays Bringing

Make gifts meaningful by putting the time in creating them, whether baking and cooking, or in making arts and craft. It will all have more meaning for the giver and receiver. Lidia Bastianich

Time Cooking Will Gifts More Giver Putting Baking Make Making Craft Arts Whether Them Meaning Meaningful Creating Receiver

Don't accept what a grocery store has for you. Tell the store to get you want you want. If you want honey from a local farmer, organic honey, you tell them. We are in control. It's up to us as the consumer to get what we want. Lidia Bastianich

You Control Organic Honey Local Tell Consumer Accept Up Get Store Want Them Us Grocery Grocery Store Farmer

As a chef, I feel that it is my duty to make the most of what the earth gives us. Lidia Bastianich

Duty Earth Gives Feel Most Make Chef Us

I think traditions change and modify with each generation. With new members joining the family, their customs and traditions have to be respected and combined with the exiting traditions. And the children that follow are part of that new evolving tradition and, as they grow, will have input that will, in turn, continue to evolve that tradition. Lidia Bastianich

Family Change Generation Will Think Respected Input Members Evolve Evolving Follow Joining Part Combined New Tradition Continue Traditions Children Turn Customs Modify Each Grow Each Generation

The best things - when I really feel that I'm communicating, and when I really feel that people are getting it - are simple, straightforward recipes. I think simple is the hardest to achieve because you don't have all those elements to hide behind. Lidia Bastianich

Best You People Hide Simple Achieve Think Recipes Those Feel Because Getting Behind Communicating Straightforward Really Elements Hardest Things

When you are the host, you have to take the party into your hands like a conductor. Lidia Bastianich

You Party Take Host Like Conductor Hands Your

With the Industrial Revolution, the production of food was delegated to big companies in order for women and men to be in the labour force, to come home, stick something in the oven, and eat. It became a big industry that does not have a love affair with food nor is really concerned about nurturing you or giving you the right nutrition. Lidia Bastianich

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Eating is something we all have to do. When we sit down at the table, we nurture ourselves, and hence, all our resistance goes away. We are open to receiving good and taking it in with gusto and pleasure. Lidia Bastianich

Good Nurture Sit Down Our Pleasure Ourselves Table Eating Gusto Something Open Taking Goes Hence Away Receiving Resistance

Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are. Lidia Bastianich

Food You Culture Footprint Identity Who

I'll get home from work on Friday night and take out some beans and soak them. The next morning, I'll put them in a pot for soup, then just keep chopping, chopping, chopping - carrots and celery and cabbage - and in two or three hours, you have this wonderful, mellow soup that fills up the whole house with its aroma. Lidia Bastianich

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