Book description
Published for the first time in the UK, Laurie Colwin's much loved
kitchen essays are perfect for fans of Nigella Lawson and Nigel Slater.
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 hot-plate 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.
Never before published in the UK, this is hilarious, personal and
full of Colwin's hard-won expertise. Home Cooking will speak to
the heart (and stomach) of any amateur cook, professional chef, or
food lover.
Praise for Laurie Colwin:
'Everything food writing should be: funny, profound, inspiring and
unaffected' Nigella Lawson
'I have in my kitchen a book called Home Cooking. And, in
between following the recipes for Extremely Easy Old-Fashioned 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 Joy of
Cooking, and I can read The Silver Palate Cookbook standing
up, but I always sat down to read these' Anna Quindlen
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
Marvellous Thing - and two collections of essays, Home
Cooking and More Home Cooking. Laurie Colwin died in 1992.
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 Marvellous Thing
- and two collections of essays,
Home Cooking
and
More Home Cooking
. Laurie Colwin died in 1992.
