Zitat des Tages von Laurie Colwin:
The sharing of food is the basis of social life.
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.
Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.
I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.
I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don't really want to learn how to make a napoleon. I'd much rather learn how to make a very good lemon cake, which you can make in your own home. I like plain, old-fashioned home food.
Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.
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.
My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboards if they will let me.
The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.
We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.
One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.
