I LOVE 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, the wisdom of cookbook writers.
― Laurie Colwin

For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.
― Laurie Colwin, Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.
― Laurie Colwin, Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

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

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.

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.
― Laurie Colwin, The Lone Pilgrim