Laurie Colwin Quotes About Cooking

Quotes about: Cooking

• 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

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

  Laurie Colwin

  Summer, Food, July

• Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, Missing, Cooking

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

  Laurie Colwin

  Giving, Cooking, Simplest

• 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

  Safety, Giving, Cooking

• When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, Eggplant, Vegetables

• 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 baseball game without a national anthem, a winter without snow, a birthday party without candles.

  Laurie Colwin

  Baseball, Funny Inspirational, Party

• It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.

  Laurie Colwin

  Wise, Food, Two

• No one who cooks cooks alone.

  Laurie Colwin

  Cooking Classes, Home Cooking, Chefs Cooking

• Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam.

  Laurie Colwin

  Lying, Men, People

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