Laurie Colwin Quotes - Page 2

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• Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures.

  Laurie Colwin

  Dinner, Pleasure

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• There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does not apply to the turkey breast, which is, really, a convenience of food... A turkey without seasonal angst is like a baseball game without a national anthem, a winter without snow, a birthday party without candles.

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  Baseball, Funny Inspirational, Party

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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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  Party, Giving, People

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• That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.

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  Kitchen, Layers, Events

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• I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.

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  College, People, Culture

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• 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.

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  Hot And Cold, Eggplant, Next Day

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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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  People, Meals, Kind

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

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  People, Salad, Enlightened

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• Dinner 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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  Lying, Men, People

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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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  Morning, Coffee, Glasses

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

  Laurie Colwin

  Kitchen

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• I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, because both of us collect all the dead coffee from everyone's morning cup, pour it over ice, and drink it. This is a disgusting habit.

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  Morning, Coffee, Ice

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

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  Food, Missing, Cooking

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

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  Fellowship, Life Is, Knows

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• [On television:] It's made people moronic, it's robbed people of their ability to think. It's done tremendous damage, and every single household that has a small child should take it and throw it out the window.

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  Children, Thinking, People

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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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  Food, Numbers, People

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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.

  Laurie Colwin

  Wise, Food, Two

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