Laurie Colwin Quotes

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• On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee. Often it was freshly roasted…
• When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally....
• I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked…
• A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
• Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.
• The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.
• Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.
• To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.
• For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.
• Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick. People feel this way when…
• There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.
• When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely pool of sauce…
• Many people eat salad dutifully because they feel it is good for them, but more enlightened types eat it happily because it is good.
• The sharing of food is the basis of social life.
• Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat…
• The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person…
• Both happy and sad people can be cheered up by a nice meal,
• And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.
• There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does…
• A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

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