"On Saturday mornings I would walk to the……" — Laurie Colwin
"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 and the beans were still warm. Coffee was my nectar and my ambrosia: I was very careful about it. I decanted my beans into glass...and I ground them in little batches in my grinder."
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Laurie Colwin
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43 Quotes by Laurie Colwin
Laurie Colwin has 43 quotes on this site.
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A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
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Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.
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The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.
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Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.
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To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.
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For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.
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Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick.…
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Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly…
— Howell Raines
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There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank…
— Joseph Campbell
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I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better…
— James Earl Jones
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Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into…
— Rex Stout
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Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box…
— Sarah Dessen
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No one has ever been able to pinpoint the trigger." "But?" "But it is legend that ambrosia only rises when-"…
— Nalini Singh
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The one and only time an archangel can Make another angel is when our bodies produce a substance known as…
— Nalini Singh
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Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal…
— Julia Child
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