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Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

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Share the unsurpassed pleasures of discovering, cooking, and eating good, simple food with this beloved book. Equal parts cookbook and memoir, Laurie Colwin's < I> Home Cooking< /I> combines her insightful, good-humored writing style with her lifelong passion for wonderful cuisine in essays such as & #34; Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant, & #34; & #34; Repulsive Dinners: A Memoir, & #34; and & #34; Stuffed Breast of Veal: A Bad Idea.& #34; < I> Home Cooking< /I> is trul a feast for body and soul.

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A unique feast for body and soul, "Home Cooking" shares the delightful pleasures of discovering cooking and eating good, simple food. Colwin combines her insightful, good-humored writing style with her lifelong passion for wonderful food in such essays as "Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant", "Repulsive Dinners: A Memoir" and "Stuffed Breast of Veal: A Bad Idea".

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Share the unsurpassed pleasures of discovering, cooking, and eating good, simple food with this beloved book. Equal parts cookbook and memoir, Laurie Colwin's Home Cooking combines her insightful, good-humored writing style with her lifelong passion for wonderful cuisine in essays such as "Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant," "Repulsive Dinners: A Memoir," and "Stuffed Breast of Veal: A Bad Idea." Home Cooking is truly a feast for body and soul.

About the Author

Laurie Colwin is the author of five novels: Happy All the Time, Family Happiness, Goodbye Without Leaving, Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object, and A Big Storm Knocked It Over; three collections of short stories: Passion and Affect, Another Marvelous Thing, and The Lone Pilgrim; and two collections of essays: Home Cooking and More Home CookingShe died in 1992.

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ISBN:: 9780060955304
Subtitle:: A Writer in the Kitchen
Author:: Colwin, Laurie
Author:: by Laurie Colwin
Publisher:: Harper Perennial
Location:: New York, NY
Subject:: General
Subject:: Cookery
Subject:: Essays
Edition Description:: HarperPerennial ed. (reissue 2000)
Series Volume:: 106-644
Publication Date:: June 2000
Binding:: Paperback
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 208
Dimensions:: 8.02x5.32x.53 in. .36 lbs.

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