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Laurie Colwin

American Author

Born: Jun 14, 1944

Died: Oct 24, 1992

Cooking Food Life Love People You

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

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

Food Cooking Gift Safety Giving Gathering Meeting Table Simplest Source Person Sustenance Place Ground Nourishment Even Satisfaction

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

Dreams Time Day Relax Our Reconnect Some Give Contemplate Look Around Disconnect Brains Just Us Need Sleep

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

Love Home People Some People Unlike Out Stay Some Go Who

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

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

Food You Rest Pure Organic Go Provision Organic Food Much

The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time. Laurie Colwin

Life Time Great Luxury Fact Modern Modern Life Deprived Us

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

Wisdom Alone Advice Past Solitary Kitchen Writers No-One Generations Most Surrounded Cook Cookbook Who Cooks Even Her Present

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 ate it cold the next day on bread. Laurie Colwin

Alone Day Strange Stove Cold Top Crisp Ate Strongest Delicious Cheap Ally Hot Combinations Over Fried Left Any Bread Manner Next Cook Filling Lived

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

Tea Cakes Bread Cannot English

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

Other Somehow Crowd Kitchen Feeding Always End Up

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