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You should have married a nice girl in her twenties so you can have dozens of babies... instead of the president of the Withered Crone Society.
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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.
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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.
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Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects.
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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.
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On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee. Often it was freshly roasted and the beans were still warm. Coffee was my nectar and my ambrosia: I was very careful about it. I decanted my beans into glass...and I ground them in little batches in my grinder.
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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.
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For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.
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Life was a battle. You had to fight and think. You had to hack your way through life with your intelligence as a machete cutting down what obstacles you could. You were born knowing nothing; you had to fight for what you knew.
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Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.
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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.
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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.
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Dining alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam.
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Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
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One summer I spent some time in a farmhouse on the island of Minorca. This was my idea of bliss: a vacation at home (even if it wasn't my home).
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In foreign countries I am drawn into grocery shops, supermarkets and kitchen supply houses. I explain this by reminding my friends that, as I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology, it is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.
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Unlike some people, who love to go out, I love to stay home.
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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.
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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.
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When Charlotte was around, he woke up as fast and clean as a freshly snapped twig. Now he crawled out of sleep, like a wounded fly climbing out of a sticky cup.
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The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction.
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Her eyes were so brown they appeared to have no pupils, giving her the smoldering look of a burning tire.
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The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.
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The Lone Pilgrim sits at the dinner parties of others, partakes, savors, and goes home in a taxi alone.
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Holly conducted herself like a bird of paradise that had flown through the window of a house in Des Moines and settled down; she explained very little.
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Laurie Colwin
Born:
June 14, 1944
Died:
October 24, 1992
(aged 48)
Bio:
Laurie Colwin 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.
Known for:
Happy all the time (1978)
Home Cooking
More Home Cooking
The lone pilgrim (1981)
Goodbye without leaving (1990)
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