The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time. — 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
“Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.” — 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 a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring… — 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
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
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
