To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
“Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.” — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
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 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
The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
People who like to cook like to talk about food…without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey,… — 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
In this world of uncertainty and woe, one thing remains unchanged: Fresh, canned, pureed, dried, salted, sliced, and served with sugar and… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely… — 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
When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends. — 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 Image
For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start. — 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
I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
As everyone knows, there is only one way to fry chicken correctly. Unfortunately, most people think their method is best, but most… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Many people eat salad dutifully because they feel it is good for them, but more enlightened types eat it happily because it… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise… — 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
