Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and not only do you want those basic things fixed, you want it done in a really nice, gentle… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living. — 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 invite them… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
