Quotes by Laurie Colwin

About Laurie Colwin:

Laurie Colwin was an American author. Her published works include Passion and Affect (1974), Shine on, Bright and Dangerous Object (1975), Happy All the Time (1978), The Lone Pilgrim (1981), Family Happiness (1982), Another Marvelous Thing (1988), Home Cooking (1988), Goodbye without Leaving (1990), More Home Cooking (1993), and A Big Storm Knocked It Over (1993). The PBS series American Playhouse adapted Colwin's short story An Old-Fashioned Story as a 90-minute film retitled Ask Me Again [1], which aired February 8, 1989.
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Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

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How simple it could be! The answer to the problem of being anything was being it. How admirable Teddy was! From the ashes of his broken childhood he had formed a decision to be a cheerful person, a do-gooding scientific type with knowledge of English...

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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, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.

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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...

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At a certain point, memory begins to be a burden.

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There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does not apply to the turkey breast, which is, really, a convenience of food... A turkey without seasonal angst is like a...

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The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee.

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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.

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Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.

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Certainly, cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

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When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.

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Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.

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I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

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It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone else.

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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.

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We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

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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.

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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.

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Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.

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The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

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Author Bio

  • NameLaurie Colwin
  • DescriptionNovelist, short story writer, food writer
  • BornJune 14, 1944
  • DiedOctober 24, 1992
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship