Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Laurie Colwin: A Confidante in the Kitchen

Rosa Jurjevics with a photo of her mother, Laurie Colwin, the novelist and food writer around whom a cultlike following has arisen. Ms. Jurjevics was 8 when her mother, then 48, died in 1992.CreditKirsten Luce for The New York Times
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Emily Gould stood in an Upper West Side kitchen on a Saturday evening and gazed into a crumb-encrusted pan full of creamed spinach. “It kind of suffered on the subway a little bit,” she said.
It was a moment that might have appeared in an essay by the food writer Laurie Colwin, whose recipes were on the menu that night. Ms. Gould is a writer whose first novel will come out this summer, and the apartment belongs to her friend Sadie Stein, a contributing editor for The Paris Review. Both hang out with a young, literary, food-obsessed crowd, and they had met up with two friends to eat baked mustard chicken and that creamed spinach, debating and paying tribute to a writer whose work overflows with stove-centered gatherings just like this one. 

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