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It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone else. — Laurie Colwin

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. — Laurie Colwin

The sharing of food is the basis of social life. — Laurie Colwin

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. — Laurie Colwin

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. — Laurie Colwin

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

Many people eat salad dutifully because they feel it is good for them, but more enlightened types eat it happily because it is good. — Laurie Colwin

No one who cooks cooks alone. — Laurie Colwin

Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world. — Laurie Colwin

Gertje was right. To be an American was to be blessed with a kind of idiotic but very useful innocence. — Laurie Colwin

When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed. — Laurie Colwin

At a certain point, memory begins to be a burden. — Laurie Colwin

Both happy and sad people can be cheered up by a nice meal, — Laurie Colwin

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

The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time. — Laurie Colwin

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

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. — Laurie Colwin

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed. — Laurie Colwin

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

Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books. — Laurie Colwin

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. — Laurie Colwin

Out on the street I felt lost wandering around without my child. I felt I ought to wear a pin that said: I have a child in school at the moment. — Laurie Colwin

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

We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living. — Laurie Colwin

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

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

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

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. — Laurie Colwin

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins. — Laurie Colwin

For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start. — Laurie Colwin

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be. — Laurie Colwin

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

I love to eat out, but even more, I love to eat in. — Laurie Colwin

People who like to cook like to talk about food ... without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago. — Laurie Colwin