Laurie Colwin Quotes

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Laurie Colwin

Profession : Author

Birth : June 14, 1944

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, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.

Laurie Colwin

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.

Laurie Colwin

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.

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

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I love to eat out, but even more, I love to eat in.

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

Laurie Colwin

There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey, a dish for a dinner party or a family supper, it will not let you down.

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Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There is something almost miraculous in that.

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Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.

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When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.

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One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

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The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

Laurie Colwin

I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, because both of us collect all the dead coffee from everyone's morning cup, pour it over ice, and drink it. This is a disgusting habit.

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The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.

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My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboards if they will let me.

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It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.

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Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even very exciting to fall in love. You just have to be interested in it. It's the same thing with food.

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The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee.

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Certainly, cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

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When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.

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