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

“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

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

“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.”
― Laurie Colwin, More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen

“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

“From Laurie Colwin: Lovely writing! About grief she writes: "I realized that grief is metabolic: it crawls through you like a disease and takes your energy away. Then it gathers and hits like a sudden migraine, like being hit by a car, like having a large, flat rock hurled at your chest.”
― Laurie Colwin