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
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
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
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
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
[On television:] It's made people moronic, it's robbed people of their ability to think. It's done tremendous damage, and every single household… — 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
I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make… — 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
Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick. People feel… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille. — 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
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
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
The thing about homebodies is that they can usually be found at home. I usually am, and I like to feed people. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone… — 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
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