Colwin

And Laurie Colwin is one of my food-writing heroes.

Pickled shrimp with lime | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009

Colwin is all for good living, particularly when it comes to food, entertaining and friends.

December Comfort « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

Colwin is homey precisely because my mother cooked like this in 1988 when I was still in elementary school.

Archive 2008-07-01 Sarah Lenz 2008

Colwin is homey precisely because my mother cooked like this in 1988 when I was still in elementary school.

Vicarious Home Cooking Sarah Lenz 2008

Colwin is too smart a writer to simply juggle oppositions, and by the end of the narrative, each character in her foursome has lost some of their rough edges and climbed down from the extremity of their positions.

December Comfort « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

Laurie Colwin is one of my favorite authors, and I sometimes think of her as my private property It’s wonderful to read such a great review of Family Happiness, which I think may be my favorite of hers (that, or Happy All the Time.)

Family Happiness « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

Colwin is equally sharp-eyed on the brutality of family love, it’s blackmailer’s demands: ‘It always surprised Polly that other women, who were not so good at making things sweet, whose households were not so sparkling and comfortable, whose children were not so well turned out, behaved as if they, too, deserved love.

2008 October « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

Colwin is equally sharp-eyed on the brutality of family love, it’s blackmailer’s demands: ‘It always surprised Polly that other women, who were not so good at making things sweet, whose households were not so sparkling and comfortable, whose children were not so well turned out, behaved as if they, too, deserved love.

Family Happiness « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

Laurie Colwin wrote about her life and cooking; I love her work, too.

Pickled shrimp with lime | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009

And, even though Colwin has a sort of bossy, no-nonsense tone that sometimes grated on my nerves, I still loved every minute of reading.

Vicarious Home Cooking Sarah Lenz 2008