85 Quotes by Laurie Colwin

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.

When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely pool of sauce whose ambrosial flavors are like nothing ever before tasted, but rather something comforting and savory, easy on the digestion - something that makes one feel, if even for only a minute, that one is safe.

In this world of uncertainty and woe, one thing remains unchanged: Fresh, canned, pureed, dried, salted, sliced, and served with sugar and cream, or pressed into juice, the tomato is reliable, friendly, and delicious. We would be nothing without it.

It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.

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

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.

I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed.

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures.

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