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A review by ralovesbooks
Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin
5.0
Would recommend: YES
[a:Molly Wizenberg|1321968|Molly Wizenberg|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1279355984p2/1321968.jpg] cites Laurie Colwin as one of her favorite authors, and I totally see why. I love her, too! Her tone is funny and frank, and I love her straight-forward approach to food. The recipes are hardly detailed; she already assumes you know how to blanch things, for example. I'm sure I'll hunt down my own copy soon enough, since I could not stop laughing or copying down lines. Here are some of my favorites:
"When people enter the kitchen, they often drag their childhood in with them."
"The thing about homebodies is that they can usually be found at home. I usually am, and I like to feed people."
"Everyone should have the good fortune either to be Chinese or to be rich. Either way, you can end up learning how to make homemade won tons and duck stuffed with cherries and fresh lichee nuts."
"Host- and hostessing, as we know, is often a heroic endeavor, requiring daring, ingenuity, a desire to take chances, and a concern for others. these traits are called for in saints and Nobel Prize winners. And always keep this motto in mind: some are born fussy, and some have fussiness thrust upon them."
"To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup."
[a:Molly Wizenberg|1321968|Molly Wizenberg|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1279355984p2/1321968.jpg] cites Laurie Colwin as one of her favorite authors, and I totally see why. I love her, too! Her tone is funny and frank, and I love her straight-forward approach to food. The recipes are hardly detailed; she already assumes you know how to blanch things, for example. I'm sure I'll hunt down my own copy soon enough, since I could not stop laughing or copying down lines. Here are some of my favorites:
"When people enter the kitchen, they often drag their childhood in with them."
"The thing about homebodies is that they can usually be found at home. I usually am, and I like to feed people."
"Everyone should have the good fortune either to be Chinese or to be rich. Either way, you can end up learning how to make homemade won tons and duck stuffed with cherries and fresh lichee nuts."
"Host- and hostessing, as we know, is often a heroic endeavor, requiring daring, ingenuity, a desire to take chances, and a concern for others. these traits are called for in saints and Nobel Prize winners. And always keep this motto in mind: some are born fussy, and some have fussiness thrust upon them."
"To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup."