Laurie Colwin

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born

June 14, 1944 in The United States

died

October 24, 1992

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction, Cooking, Food & Wine

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Laurie Colwin is the author of five novels: Happy All the Time, Family Happiness, Goodbye Without Leaving, Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object, and A Big Storm Knocked It Over; three collections of short stories: Passion and Affect, Another Marvelous Thing, and The Lone Pilgrim; and two collections of essays: Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. She died in 1992.

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Average rating: 4.10 · 4,354 ratings · 493 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen 4.22 avg rating — 1,213 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Happy All the Time 3.97 avg rating — 706 ratings — published 1978 — 12 editions	My rating:
	More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen 4.38 avg rating — 495 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Big Storm Knocked It Over 3.82 avg rating — 395 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Goodbye Without Leaving 3.91 avg rating — 363 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Family Happiness 3.94 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 1983 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object 4.11 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 1975 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Lone Pilgrim 4.25 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 1981 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Another Marvelous Thing 4.12 avg rating — 249 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Passion and Affect 4.08 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 1974 — 7 editions	My rating:

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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, the wisdom of cookbook writers.”
― Laurie Colwin

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“Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick. People feel this way when they bake bread or have babies, and although they are perfectly entitled to feel that way, in fact, nature does most of the work.”
― Laurie Colwin, More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen

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“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

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