Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen: A Memoir and Cookbook (Vintage Contemporaries)

ISBN: 0307474410

Author: Colwin, Laurie

Condition: New

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 ReviewFrom 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 Colwins hard-won expertise, Home Cooking will speak to the heart of any amateur cook, professional chef, or food lover.