A Writer in the Kitchen (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Laurie Colwin
Recommended by Shauna Niequist
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Hobbies, Most Recommended Books, and Food.
Share the unsurpassed pleasures of discovering, cooking, and eating good, simple food with this beloved book. Equal parts cookbook and memoir, Laurie Colwin's "Home Cooking" combines her insightful, goodhumored writing style with her lifelong passion for wonderful cuisine in essays such as "Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant," "Repulsive Dinner...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Hobbies, Most Recommended Books, and Food.
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Shauna Niequist
“Another day, another booklist: this time, my all time favorite food writing (not cookbooks?I?ll do those soon). Food writing is about comfort, memory, tradition, longing. In times like these, I highly recommend it, along with folk music, poetry & the Psalms.”
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