"We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook"
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The telling phrase is “our little restaurants.” It plants a flag in community and routine, not exclusivity. “Little” shrinks the world down to something local and repeatable, the opposite of red-carpet scale. The beach detail does similar work: summer and fall evokes a calendar you can feel, a life paced by weather and tradition rather than premieres. She’s selling continuity.
Then comes the disarming kicker: “we order pizza because I can’t cook.” That admission does two things at once. It punctures the fantasy of the effortlessly competent woman and quietly signals priorities: hosting matters more than performing. The pizza isn’t a failure; it’s a tool for togetherness, outsourcing the labor so the social glue stays intact. Subtext: I’m not auditioning for domestic perfection, I’m building a life that actually functions.
In the broader context of celebrity motherhood and post-Instagram domesticity, it reads like a soft rebuttal to the aspirational feed: intimacy over aesthetics, friends over flex, comfort food over curated competence.
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Holmes, Katie. (2026, January 15). We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-have-our-little-restaurants-and-theres-a-146701/
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Holmes, Katie. "We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-have-our-little-restaurants-and-theres-a-146701/.
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"We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-have-our-little-restaurants-and-theres-a-146701/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.






