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Laurie Colwin (June 14, 1944 – October 24, 1992) was an American writer who wrote five novels, three collections of short stories and two volumes of essays and recipes. She was known for her portrayals of New York society and her food columns in Gourmet magazine.

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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.

Day, Defuse, Dream, Giving, Relax, Sleep

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.

Cooking, Gathering, Giving, Ground, Safety, Sustenance

[On television:] It's made people moronic, it's robbed people of their ability to think. It's done tremendous damage, and every single household that has a small child should take it and throw it out the window.

Children, Damage, People, Robbed, Television, Thinking

I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.

College, Culture, Daily, Make, People, Serve

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.

Alone, Cooking Classes, Food, Kitchen, Menus, Past

The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.

Food, Knows, Newspaper, Numbers, People

Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and not only do you want those basic things fixed, you want it done in a really nice, gentle way that makes you feel loved. That's a big desire, and cookbooks say to the person reading them, 'If you will read me, you will be able to do this for yourself and for others. You will make everybody feel better. '

Comfort, Everybody, Food, Nice, Read, Reading

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.

Eccentric, Food, Nothing, Soup, Two

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

Food, July, String, Summer, Violins, World

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

Bean, Congeniality, Cooking, Food, Lentils, Missing

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

Dressed, Friendship, Memorable, Sisterhood, Women

It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life.

Give, Giving, Life, Parties, Party, People

Many people eat salad dutifully because they feel it is good for them, but more enlightened types eat it happily because it is good.

Eat, Enlightened, Good, Happily, People, Salad

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

Ally, Eggplant, Food, Stove, Strongest, Vegetables

I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, because both of us collect all the dead coffee from everyone's morning cup, pour it over ice, and drink it. This is a disgusting habit.

Coffee, Come, Ice, Morning, Pour

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

Cooking, Giving, Person, Simplest

The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in.

Food, Kind, Life, Meals, Participating, People

Both happy and sad people can be cheered up by a nice meal.

Meal, Meals, Nice, People

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

Days, Dinner, Famille, Guilt, People

No one who cooks cooks alone.

Alone, Chefs Cooking, Cooking Classes, Cooks, Home Cooking

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