No one who cooks cooks
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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- Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed. – Laurie Colwin
- If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. – Lillian Hellman
- If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. – Lillian Hellman
- 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
- I wouldn’t say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren’t relevant to modern life, it’s just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly. – Jamie Oliver
- I wouldn’t say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren’t relevant to modern life, it’s just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly. – Jamie Oliver
- The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. – Epicurus
- The past doesn’t EXIST. Neither is the future, so be present in the present. Just BE! – Gladys Adevey
- If you didn’t know that I am an actress, I don’t think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She’s 16, so of course I bore her. – Karen Black
- Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not. – Craig D. Lounsbrough