Laurie Colwin
Laurie Colwin
Laurie Colwinwas an American writer who wrote five novels, three collections of short stories and two volumes of essays and recipes. She was known for her portrayals of New York society and her food columns in Gourmet magazine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 June 1944
CountryUnited States of America
people salad enlightened
Many people eat salad dutifully because they feel it is good for them, but more enlightened types eat it happily because it is good.
kitchen
For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.
morning coffee glasses
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.
space longing empty
Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.
long perfect life-is-hard
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 whose ambrosial flavors are like nothing ever before tasted, but rather something comforting and savory, easy on the digestion - something that makes one feel, if even for only a minute, that one is safe.
friendly tomatoes juice
In this world of uncertainty and woe, one thing remains unchanged: Fresh, canned, pureed, dried, salted, sliced, and served with sugar and cream, or pressed into juice, the tomato is reliable, friendly, and delicious. We would be nothing without it.
social bases social-life
The sharing of food is the basis of social life.
wise food two
It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.
fellowship life-is dies
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
food numbers people
The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.
home people
Unlike some people, who love to go out, I love to stay home.
people meals kind
The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in.
food house pet
I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed.
morning coffee ice
I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, because both of us collect all the dead coffee from everyone's morning cup, pour it over ice, and drink it. This is a disgusting habit.