Laurie Colwin Quotations

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

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

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.

I love to eat out, but even more, I love to eat in.

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

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

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

Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There is something almost miraculous in that.

I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don't really want to learn how to make a napoleon. I'd much rather learn how to make a very good lemon cake, which you can make in your own home. I like plain, old-fashioned home food.

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.