“Bet I will become known as brilliant cook and hostess”
“She was the cook, the hostess, the comforter, and the keeper of all the mysterious secrets for how to do just about everything.”
“I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked."Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically."She burns.”
“For the next few minutes, there was a thorough rehashing of the courses (That meat was delicious. The sauce was perfect. And ooh that chocolate mousse.) This was a social nicety that seemed more prevalent the higher you climbed the social ladder and the less your hostess cooked.”
“I might be an assassin, but never let it be said I wasn't as gracious a hostess as the next gal.”
“If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.”