Laurie Colwin Quotes

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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.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, Past, Cooking Classes

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• A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

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  Summer, Food, July

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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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  Safety, Giving, Cooking

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• People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

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  Two, Long, People

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• When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely pool of sauce whose ambrosial flavors are like nothing ever before tasted, but rather something comforting and savory, easy on the digestion - something that makes one feel, if even for only a minute, that one is safe.

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  Long, Perfect, Life Is Hard

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• And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

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  Talking, Eating

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• A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

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  Giving, Cooking, Simplest

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• 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.'

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  Nice, Reading, Food

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• Both happy and sad people can be cheered up by a nice meal.

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  Nice, People, Meals

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• The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

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  People, Guilt, Dinner

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• The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

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  Social, Bases, Social Life

  Laurie Colwin (2012). “Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen”, p.14, Penguin UK

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• To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.

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  Food, Night, Needs

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• 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.

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  Dream, Sleep, Giving

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• Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

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  Friendship, Memorable, Sisterhood

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• Unlike some people, who love to go out, I love to stay home.

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  Home, People

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• No one who cooks cooks alone.

  Laurie Colwin

  Cooking Classes, Home Cooking, Chefs Cooking

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• I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed.

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  Food, House, Pet

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• 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.

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  Happiness, Children, Hands

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• 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.

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  Food, Two, Soup

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• 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.

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  Baby, People, Doe

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• 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.

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  Success, Dream, Self

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• 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.

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  Believe, Vegetables, Potatoes

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• In this world of uncertainty and woe, one thing remains unchanged: Fresh, canned, pureed, dried, salted, sliced, and served with sugar and cream, or pressed into juice, the tomato is reliable, friendly, and delicious. We would be nothing without it.

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  Friendly, Would Be, Tomatoes

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• Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.

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  Space, Longing, Empty

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• 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.

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  Party, Giving, People

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