Apartment Therapy Tagged: Laurie Colwin

Weekend Meditation: Home Keeping

'Oh, domesticity! The wonder of dinner plates and cream pitchers. You know your friends by their ornaments. You want everything. If Mrs. A. has her mama's old jelly mold, you want one, too, and everyt...

Laurie Colwin: Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant

Many small-apartment dwellers dream of a spacious, well-appointed kitchen. But what happens when you get it? Well, if you're like Laurie Colwin, sometimes you find yourself reminiscing about washing a...

Is This the Easiest Cake Ever?

Last week, we spotted something called a Nantucket Cranberry Pie over at the blog Cooking Books. It's a recipe from Laurie Colwin, and it involves so few ingredients and so little effort, we had to ma...

Recipe: Lemon Rice Pudding

If you like rice pudding at all, this is for you. When I first read this recipe in Laurie Colwin's More Home Cooking, with her description of how the lemon peel dissolves into the slow-cooked, creamy,...

Home Cooking: Laurie Colwin on Luxury and Frugality

"I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato. But there are things it is worth spending money on. ...

Good Quote: Laurie Colwin on Home Food

"I love to eat out, but even more, I love to eat in. The best dinner party I ever went to was a black-tie affair to celebrate a book, catered by the author's sister. When we sat down in our long dress...

Good Quote: Laurie Colwin on Home Cooking

It's Home Cooking month here at The Kitchn, and our title is partially an homage to Laurie Colwin and her marvelous book, Home Cooking: A Writer In the Kitchen. Here is a quote from Colwin in the piec...

Eating Local, Eating Well: Home Cooking In September

Welcome to September at The Kitchn. How was your summer? Ours was hectic, and it seems like we're not alone in this. Vacations, holidays, August heat, and summer slowdown make kitchen time dwindle. ...

What's Cooking This Weekend...
Weekend of July 12-13, 2008

“Grilling is like sunbathing. Everyone knows it is bad for you but no one ever stops doing it.” - Laurie Colwin, 'Home Cooking' (1988) Sunbathing and grilling are both on our weekend agenda; sur...

Good For You, Yet Delicious: The Short Stories (and Cooking) of Laurie Colwin

We owe a great debt to Laurie Colwin. She gave us bracing inspiration in our cooking development, insisting in her brief yet potent essays for Gourmet, collected in Home Cooking and More Home Cooking,...