Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

1988 • 210 pages

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Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, the acclaimed author of Happy All the Time delivers a beloved cookbook manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. • With a foreword by Ruth Reichl. “As much memoir as cookbook and as much about eating as cooking.” —The New York Times Book Review 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.

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She's afraid of microwaves? Yeah, this is too old-fashioned for me. Moving on...

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