Home Cooking : : a Writer in the Kitchen

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Call Number: 641.5 Co, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Cooking / General / Colwin, Laurie
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Cooking / General / Colwin, Laurie	4-week checkout	Due 05-23-2024
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Cooking / General / Colwin, Laurie	4-week checkout	Due 05-17-2024

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.
Home cooking: an introduction -- Starting out in the kitchen -- The low-tech person's Batterie de cuisine -- Alone in the kitchen with an eggplant -- How to fry chicken -- Potato salad -- Feeding the fussy -- Bread baking without agony -- Friday night supper -- How to disguise vegetables -- Fish -- Feeding the multitudes -- Chocolate -- The same old thing -- Red peppers -- Dinner parties -- How to avoid grilling -- Nursery food -- Bitter greens -- Soup -- English food -- Without salt -- Stuffing: a confession -- Flank steak: the neglected cut -- Kitchen horrors -- About salad -- Repulsive dinners: a memoir -- Chicken salad -- Easy cooking for exhausted people -- How to give a party -- How to make gingerbread -- Stuffed breast of veal: a bad idea -- Black cake.
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".

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lovely! submitted by fairytale on July 12, 2012, 6:16pm wonderful essays and recipes. highly recommend.

Home Cooking submitted by i'm a blobfish on June 27, 2019, 5:36pm Consists of some short stories as well as some nice recipes. The style of the writing is different than normal cookbooks and the recipes aren't really out there, more homey kind of dishes featured in this book.