Laurie Colwin Quotes

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

I make this really good tomato soup from scratch and I do it with grilled cheese sandwich dippers on the side. That's really, really, really good. And my grandma loves that. My grandma is the best cook ever so for her to love that makes me think it's probably the best thing I make.

Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

I like using iconic things. What fine dining restaurant can get you to eat a breakfast sandwich that's like baby food?

Bake Off' has been a renaissance for me. I turn up, taste something and get paid rather well. What could be nicer?

Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures.

We had a delicious dinner of too much.

Pomegranate Soup is glorious, daring and delightful. I adored the Iranian sisters, Marjan, Bahar and Layla, who are looking to build a life, start a business and find love in a place so far from home. Ireland has never been more beautiful - the perfect setting for this story filled with humor, hope and possibility.

Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water.

Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine.

Probably the most satisfying soup in the world for people who are hungry, as well as for those who are tired or worried or cross or in debt or in a moderate amount of pain or in love or in robust health or in any kind of business huggermuggery, is minestrone.

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

If pizza brings you joy, then by all means, love that pizza like your life depends on it. Because it does.

With passion, if you see the first asparagus of the springtime and you become passionate about it, so much the better, but three weeks later, when you’ve seen that asparagus every day now, passions have subsided. What’s going to make you treat the asparagus the same? It’s the desire.

It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.

since we must eat to live, we might as well do it with both grace and gusto.

Each month is gay, Each season nice, When eating Chicken soup With rice

Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?

...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish.

Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, game or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth of beautiful soup?