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
dinner pleasure
Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures.
missing friendly world
Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.
hot-and-cold eggplant next-day
When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.
believe vegetables potatoes
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 potato.
eggplant vegetables allies
When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally....
nice food reading
Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and not only do you want those basic things fixed, you want it done in a really nice, gentle way that makes you feel loved. That's a big desire, and cookbooks say to the person reading them, 'If you will read me, you will be able to do this for yourself and for others. You will make everybody feel better.'
baby people jars
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 they bake bread or have babies, and although they are perfectly entitled to feel that way, in fact, nature does most of the work.
two eccentric soup
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.
giving cooking simplest
A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.
night soup safe
To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.
people guilt dinner
The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.
safety giving cooking
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 giving: even the simplest food is a gift.
happiness children hands
It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.
dream sleep giving
We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.