As a chef you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others if for religious reasons or just decide they don't want to eat certain ingredients you have to respect that.

I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not how interesting!

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes no matter how much happiness they may find there.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.

The people I want are very famous and very rich and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.

Now having had this experience I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.