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We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
— Laurie Colwin
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Laurie Colwin
writer, novelist
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1944 – 1992
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. In 2012, the James Beard Foundation inducted her into its Cookbook Hall of Fame.
All Quotes by Laurie Colwin
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The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.
— Laurie Colwin
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We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.
— Laurie Colwin
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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, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.
— Laurie Colwin
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The sharing of food is the basis of social life.
— Laurie Colwin