Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Weekly Reviews
Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, Home Cooking is Laurie Colwin's cookbook 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.
"As much memoir as cookbook and as much about eating as cooking." —The New York Times Book Review
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"I have in my kitchen a book called Home Cooking. And, in between following the recipes for Extremely Easy Beef Stew, or Estelle Colwin Snellenberg's Potato Pancakes, I would frequently sit down on a little stool in my kitchen and read through one of the essays in that book. I never read through The Joy of Cooking, and I can read the Silver Palate Cookbook standing up, but I always sat down to read these." Anna Quindlen
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"Celebrates a life devoted to food, with chapters on how to cook a meal for several hundred people, how to prepare a gourmet dinner with eggplant in your bathtub, and how to make the best fried chicken in the world." Santa Fe New Mexican
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"A delightful tribute to food, friends and kitchen memories....This charmer is as irresistible as homemade shortbread." San Diego Union-Tribune
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"[Laurie Colwin] is a home cook, like you and me, whose charm and lack of pretension make her wonderfully human and a welcome companion." Chicago Tribune
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"A very funny book. Funny enough to make you giggle out loud." Newsday
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"The one true kitchen friend.“ The Washington Post
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“Everything food writing should be: funny, profound, inspiring and unaffected.” Nigella Lawson
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"Laurie Colwin's food thoughts are like phone calls from a dear friend." The New York Times
About the Author
Laurie 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.