Laurie Colwin is a novelist who liked to cook, and to write about food, which she does even in her novels. She wrote five popular novels, three collections of short stories, and two collections of essays about food and life in the kitchen. She was born in New York, in 1944, and she lived there through most of her adult life. A fact that is significant to her work because her books are set in New York and often, the city is almost a character in its own right. She started writ