“When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'” PeopleJobsMotherParentEducationGrowing UpGrowingDaughterIndiaChinaDinnerMy DaughterStarvingHomeworkChina And IndiaWorld Is Flat Author:Thomas Friedman
“Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.” ShouldLittlesMadeStillsMotherFatherParentHalfGenerationsExampleMomDadTerribleFeministDinnerCooksSplitsHouseholdChoresMom And DadHousehold Chores Author:Emily Oster
“I had a very Italian house - the "plastic furniture you couldn't sit on" house. Did anybody have the museum house? For a kid it's traumatic. Towels you can never touch. China no one's ever gonna use. Everything is for a special occasion that never happens. My mother was waiting for the Pope to show up for dinner. Or Sinatra. Or Chachi.” UseShowsHappensKidsMotherHouseWaitingSpecialChinaDinnerOccasionsItalianMuseumsPlasticPopeFurnitureTowelsSpecial Occasion Author:Ray Romano
“Although I love all the great foods of the world, my death row meal would have to be cooked for me by my mother and grandmother (they live together and this happens on most Sundays). More than satisfy our hunger, these dinners nurture the soul.” WorldSoulHappensTogetherMotherHungerDinnerMealsGrandmotherSundayNurtureGreat FoodDeath RowMother And Grandmother Author:Joe Bastianich
“My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.” PeopleMotherCookingDinnerThirtyKitchenGrandmotherFarmsTypicalMy GrandmotherRecipes Book:If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First Source: If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First
“At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.” PeopleHeartHomeKidsUsedMotherNightFatherHurtTalkingBoysFireMy HeartQuietHundredMy FamilyTablesCalmDinnerSupposed To BePleasantNeighborhoodStomachLaughedHomeworkDinner TableClamorScarvesFireplacesCaleb Author:Veronica Roth
“My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell's soup.” KidsMotherNightJokesRaisedDinnerCooksServantGrandmotherSundayEggsSoupMy GrandmotherSunday NightScrambled Eggs Author:Katharine Weymouth