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
cooking man oneself reveals
Certainly, cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.
cooking exciting fall food interested love
Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even very exciting to fall in love. You just have to be interested in it. It's the same thing with food.
cooking-classes home-cooking chefs-cooking
No one who cooks cooks alone.
giving cooking simplest
A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.
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.
food past cooking-classes
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.
home
The thing about homebodies is that they can usually be found at home. I usually am, and I like to feed people.
somehow
Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.
abroad good hang poking time visit
My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboards if they will let me.
love
I love to eat out, but even more, I love to eat in.
plain
I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.
best ease
The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee.
anxious norman people
It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone else.
almost anyone love miraculous paint picture
Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There is something almost miraculous in that.