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Summary: Wonderful book
Review: This is a wonderful homage to the delights of food. It's more than a cookbook,fun and readable like the best novels, but as easy to read as one of your favorite magazines. It's filled with Laurie Colwin's humor and cooking knowledge. She also tells us how food is a mirror of our lives. I like how she says you don't need a lot of fancy equipment to prepare really delicious food.
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Summary: Gets Better Every Time
Review: This is the first book containing a collection of Laurie Colwin's columns for Gourmet magazine. Colwin died suddenly of heart problems at age 48 in 1992. Many of you may have read her fiction (A Big Storm Knocked It Down, Happy All the Time, etc.). When she died, she left an additional 12 columns, some of which are in "More Home Cooking", a companion to "Home Cooking"."Home Cooking" is a great memoir, disguised as a collection of columns about food! It has stories, vignettes, food lore and advice, and...oh, yes some recipes. I love the titles of the columns--some were: Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant; Repulsive Dinners: A Memoir; Kitchen Horrors. Colwin was an engaging, amusing, clever, and elegant writer. She was not afraid to stand back and laugh at herself as she told about kitchen mistakes she had made. Her nurturing nature is apparent in her writing. I would have loved to have known her, to have had her as a friend. I have read this book, or portions of it, many times and it keeps getting better.
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