Home Cooking Quotes

“The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.”
― Laurie Colwin, Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

“For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.”
― Laurie Colwin, Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

“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.”
― Laurie Colwin, Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

“In foreign countries I am drawn into grocery shops, supermarkets and kitchen supply houses. I explain this by reminding my friends that, as I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology, 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, Home Cooking

“Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.”
― Laurie Colwin, Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen