Book

Colwin, Laurie, author.

Home cooking : a writer in the kitchen / Laurie Colwin ; illustrated by Anna Shapiro.

First Vintage Books edition.

New York : Vintage Books, 2010.

©1988

x, 193 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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."

Cooking.

Cookbooks.

Shapiro, Anna, illustrator.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1988.

"Portions of this text were originally published in Gourmet magazine, Inside magazine, and 7 Days magazine"--Title page verso.

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.

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