Laurie Colwin Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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