Home cooking a writer in the kitchen

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", "Re...

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Main Author: Colwin, Laurie
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 2010.
Edition:1st Vintage Books ed.
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Summary: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".
Item Description:Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1988.
"Portions of this text were originally published in Gourmet magazine, Inside magazine, and 7 Days magazine"--Verso t.p.
Includes index.
Physical Description:x, 193 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9780307474414
0307474410
Author Notes: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.