Laurie Colwin Quotes

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

I like the joy when you feed people and they're happy and full and enjoying themselves.

A delicious meal cooked by a colleague for many others nourishes not only the body but also the soul.

I love to cook for people. It's my honor, honestly. It's what I have to give.

I think food brings people together, and it makes people happy.

Cooking is the ultimate giving!

Just to eat is a gift.

We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way.

We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.

Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing.

It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing, but you keep a cupful for yourself.

The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

I love to cook for people. I equate food with love.

We live in this fabulous place, Southern California, with fabulous weather and abundance, so you share your wealth, and you share your bounty. You take everything you have and make it better.

That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.

When you invite friends over, especially for food, with the food you want to send out a message of affection, of appreciation, of celebration. But also of culture - who your family is.

Making a good meal for someone, even if it is nothing complicated, is an expression of love: it is an invitation to share, for one dinner at least, in our common humanity.

How I show love has always been through food. That, for me, has been the foundation of how I express gratitude for anybody around me.