It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it. – Laurie Colwin
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. – Laurie Colwin
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. – Laurie Colwin
The thing about homebodies is that they can usually be found at home. I usually am, and I like to feed people. – Laurie Colwin
I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don’t really want to learn how to make a napoleon. I’d much rather learn how to make a very good lemon cake, which you can make in your own home. I like plain, old-fashioned home food. – Laurie Colwin
One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends. – Laurie Colwin
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. – Laurie Colwin
Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books. – Laurie Colwin
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. – Laurie Colwin
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. – Laurie Colwin
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. – Laurie Colwin
There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey, a dish for a dinner party or a family supper, it will not let you down. – Laurie Colwin
When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed. – Laurie Colwin
It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone else. – Laurie Colwin
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living. – Laurie Colwin
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. – Laurie Colwin
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. – Laurie Colwin
