"When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries,……" — Laurie Colwin
"When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed."
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43 Quotes by Laurie Colwin
Laurie Colwin has 43 quotes on this site.
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On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee.…
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When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally....
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I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to…
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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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There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get…
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When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in…
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More Bread Quotes
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
— Paul Auster
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
— Francis Bacon
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
— Tyra Banks
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I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken,…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
— Milton Berle
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
— Georges Bernanos
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
— Ambrose Bierce
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