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Wizenberg, Molly.

A homemade life : stories and recipes from my kitchen table / Molly Wizenberg ; illustrations by Camilla Engman.

1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.

xi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Author of the internationally famous blog, Orangette, Molly Wizenberg recounts a life with the kitchen at its center. From her mother's pound cake, a staple of summer picnics during her childhood in Oklahoma, to the eggs she cooked for her father during the weeks before his death, food and memories are intimately entwined.

Wizenberg, Molly.

Women food writers -- United States -- Biography.

Cooking.

Cookbooks.

Includes index.

How to use the recipes in this book -- A place to start -- The baker in the family -- In need of calming -- The whole messy decade -- An uncalculating science -- Better with chocolate -- The dark horse -- A brood of seven -- La Boule Miche -- A strange sort of coming of age -- The hardball stage -- A personal chronology in Christmas cookies -- The right answer to everything -- Quite that magnificent -- What France would taste like -- The best of all possible worlds -- High points -- Heaven -- 9:00 a.m. Sunday -- Italian grotto eggs -- The mottling -- Whatever you love, you are -- Summer of change -- Pretty perfect -- Promise to share -- Whith cream on top -- Happiness -- Baby steps -- Like wildflowers -- Delicious in its way -- Rough going -- Bonus points -- Herbivores only -- Special game -- The diamonds -- Sugarhouse -- The change thing -- Bonne femme -- So much better -- A big deal -- Freeze frame -- Pickling plant -- So easy -- I have learned not to worry -- Winning hearts and minds.

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