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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... Read Full Overview

'Everything food writing should be: funny, profound, inspiring and unaffected' Nigella Lawson

Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, Home Cooking is Laurie Colwin's manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining... Read Full Overview

At night, some count sheep and others read mystery novels. I lie on the bed and start thinking about food.? Weaving reflections and memories of several decades between stoves and books along with her most infallible recipes, the novelist Laurie Colwin invites us to rediscover... Read Full Overview