“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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Novelist, short story writer, food writer 1944–1992

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