Another Marvelous Thing (18 page)

As a writer, Colwin was able to leave office life behind and become a work-from-home mom. Ice-skating with her daughter, Rosa, age six in this photograph, was a favorite winter activity.

A soup recipe Colwin created for Rosa.

This gingerbread recipe was “a hit” according to Colwin—words of high praise she used throughout her food writing.

A crowd-pleaser from
More Home Cooking
.

Colwin loved to tinker with baking recipes and routinely combined elements and flavors not cited in the original versions.

Summer food delighted Colwin, and she loved to eat outside, especially in the evening.

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These are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Laurie Colwin wishes to thank the National Endowment for the Arts for its generous support.

“Frank and Billy” and “French Movie” originally appeared in
Cosmopolitan
. “A Little Something” originally appeared in
New Woman
. “Another Marvelous Thing,” “A Country Wedding,” “A Couple of Old Flames” (originally entitled “Old Flames”), and “Swan Song” originally appeared in
The New Yorker
. “My Mistress” originally appeared in
Playboy
.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., for permission to reprint an excerpt from “Falling in Love Is Never as Simple” by Randall Jarrell from
The Complete Poems
by Randall Jarrell. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.

Copyright © 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 by Laurie Colwin

Cover design by Mimi Bark

ISBN: 978-1-4976-7378-6

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