85 Quotes by Laurie Colwin

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.

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

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.'

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.

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.

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

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

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