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  • Home Cooking

  • A Writer in the Kitchen: A Memoir and Cookbook
  • Written by: Laurie Colwin
  • Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
  • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins

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Home Cooking

Written by: Laurie Colwin
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
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Publisher's Summary

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 Review

From 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 Colwin’s hard-won expertise, Home Cooking will speak to the heart of any amateur cook, professional chef, or food lover.

©2014 Laurie Colwin (P)2022 Random House Audio

What the critics say

“Celebrates a life devoted to food, with chapters on how to cook a meal for several hundred people, how to prepare a gourmet dinner with eggplant in your bathtub, and how to make the best fried chicken in the world.” - Santa Fe New Mexican

“The joy of reading Colwin’s food writing is that she is doing much more than teaching you how to function in front of a stove. . . . Her brusque kitchen style is really a sly way of urging you to trust the strength of your convictions.” - Rachel Syme, The New Yorker

“The one true kitchen friend." - The Washington Post

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