Laurie Colwin

As everyone knows, there is only one way to fry chicken correctly. Unfortunately, most people think their method is best, but most…

— Laurie Colwin

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

On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee. Often it…

— Laurie Colwin

Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There…

— Laurie Colwin

“At a certain point, memory begins to be a burden.”

— Laurie Colwin

“From Laurie Colwin: Lovely writing! About grief she writes: "I realized that grief is metabolic: it crawls through you like a disease…

— Laurie Colwin

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

I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise…

— Laurie Colwin

When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely…

— Laurie Colwin

Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick. People feel…

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The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

— Laurie Colwin

When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.

— Laurie Colwin

There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting…

— Laurie Colwin

For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.

— Laurie Colwin

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking…

— Laurie Colwin

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

I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, because both of…

— Laurie Colwin

“Their first actual kiss was a one-celled organism which, after they had been standing on the stairway kissing for some time, evolved…

— Laurie Colwin

“You should have married a nice girl in her twenties so you can have dozens of babies,'Jane Louise said. 'Instead of the…

— Laurie Colwin

Many people eat salad dutifully because they feel it is good for them, but more enlightened types eat it happily because it…

— Laurie Colwin

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

— Laurie Colwin

Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.

— Laurie Colwin

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

“Marriage, it turned out, was a series of small events.”

— Laurie Colwin

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