85 Quotes by Laurie Colwin

The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee.

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

I love to eat out, but even more, I love to eat in.

My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboards if they will let me.

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

The thing about homebodies is that they can usually be found at home. I usually am, and I like to feed people.

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

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.

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.