Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen: A Memoir and CookbookWeaving 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. |
Contents
Starting Out in the Kitchen | 7 |
The LowTech Persons Batterie de Cuisine | 15 |
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant | 21 |
How to Fry Chicken | 29 |
Feeding the Fussy | 38 |
Bread Baking Without Agony | 44 |
Friday Night Supper | 51 |
How to Disguise Vegetables | 59 |
Red Peppers | 90 |
How to Avoid Grilling ΙΟΙ | 101 |
Soup | 116 |
A Confession | 132 |
About Salad | 146 |
Easy Cooking for Exhausted People | 160 |
A Bad Idea | 176 |
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