Laurie Colwin Quotes

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.

People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.

To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.

Many people eat salad dutifully because they feel it is good for them, but more enlightened types eat it happily because it is good.

No one who cooks cooks alone.

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.

I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed.

We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.

The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.

Unlike some people, who love to go out, I love to stay home.

Both happy and sad people can be cheered up by a nice meal.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in.

For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures.

It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.

At a certain point, memory begins to be a burden.

Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.

To be effortlessly yourself is a blessing, an ambrosia. It is like a few tiny little puffs of opium which lift you ever so slightly off the hard surface of the world.