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Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen (Vintage Contemporaries)by Laurie Colwin
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, Home Cooking is Laurie Colwin’s manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. From the humble hotplate of her one-room apartment to the crowded kitchens of bustling parties, Colwin regales us with tales of meals gone both magnificently well and disastrously wrong. Hilarious, personal, and full of Colwin’s hard-won expertise, Home Cooking will speak to the heart of any amateur cook, professional chef, or food lover.
Synopsis: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.
Synopsis:A unique feast for body and soul, "Home Cooking" shares the delightful pleasures of discovering cooking and eating good, simple food.
About the AuthorLaurie Colwin is the author of five novels—Happy All the Time; Family Happiness; Goodbye Without Leaving; A Big Storm Knocked It Over; and Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object—three collections of short stories—Passion and Affect; The Lone Pilgrim; and Another Marvelous Thing—and two collections of essays, Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. Colwin died in 1992.
Table of ContentsForeward
Home Cooking: An Introduction Starting Out in the Kitchen The Low-Tech Person's Batterie de Cuisine Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant How to Fry Chicken Potato Salad Feeding the Fussy Bread Baking Without Agony Friday Night Supper How to Disguise Vegetables Fish Feeding the Multitudes Chocolate The Same Old Thing Red Peppers Dinner Parties How to Avoid Grilling Nursery Food Bitter Greens Soup English Food Without Salt Stuffing: A Confession Flank Steak: The Neglected Cut Kitchen Horrors About Salad Repulsive Dinners: A Memoir Chicken Salad Easy Cooking for Exhausted People How to Give a Party How to Make Gingerbread Stuffed Breast of Veal: A Bad Idea Black Cake Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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