Quotes from Laurie Colwin

Her work had been going so well and now it was all going to end.

Her telephone voice was brisk and without any tone at all.

They wanted me to stay because they wanted me around: I was their direct link to Sam; I was his memento. And they were probably afraid that I might shoot myself, left alone with all Sam's things.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.

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