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
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.
best ease
The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee.
cakes cannot
When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.
almost best fry method mine people subject
As everyone knows, there is only one way to fry chicken correctly. Unfortunately, most people think their method is best, but most people are wrong. Mine is the only right way, and on this subject I feel almost evangelical.
food organic
Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.
summer july tomatoes
A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
sisterhood two well-dressed
Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.
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.
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.'
eggplant vegetables allies
When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally....
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.
party giving people
It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life.
success dream light
Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.
fellowship life-is dies
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.