“Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.” — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even very exciting to fall in love.… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don't really want to learn how to make a napoleon. I'd much… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share
I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share
There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share
It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share
Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share
When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share
The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share
It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share
