Laurie Colwin is the author of five novels--Happy All the Time; Family Happiness; Goodbye Without Leaving; A Big Storm Knocked It Over; and Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object--three collections of short stories--Passion and Affect; The Lone Pilgrim; and Another Marvelous Thing--and two collections of essays, Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. Colwin died in 1992.
"Celebrates a life devoted to food, with chapters on how to cook a meal for several hundred people, how to prepare a gourmet dinner with eggplant in your bathtub, and how to make the best fried chicken in the world." --Santa Fe New Mexican
"As much memoir as cookbook and as much about eating as
cooking." --The New York Times Book Review Everything food
writing should be: funny, profound, inspiring and unaffected.
--Nigella Lawson "The one true kitchen friend. --The Washington
Post "Laurie Colwin's food thoughts are like phone calls from a
dear friend." --The New York Times "A delightful tribute to
food, friends and kitchen memories.... This charmer is as
irresistible as homemade shortbread." --San Diego
Union-Tribune "A very funny book. Funny enough to make you
giggle out loud." --Newsday
"[Laurie Colwin] is a home cook, like you and me, whose charm and
lack of pretension make her wonderfully human and a welcome
companion." --Chicago Tribune
"I decided to lean back and trust Ms. Colwin when she revealed that
'I am never on a diet regime I cannot be talked out of.'" --Ann
Banks, The New York Times Book Review "Delightful. . . .
[Colwin] is funny, and for some reason funny stories about food are
as funny as things can get." --St. Petersburg Times "Cozy,
unpretentious good sense . . . characterizes all her food writing."
--The New York Times
"I have in my kitchen a book called Home Cooking. And, in
between following the recipes for Extremely Easy Beef Stew, or
Estelle Colwin Snellenberg's Potato Pancakes, I would frequently
sit down on a little stool in my kitchen and read through one of
the essays in that book. I never read through The Joy of
Cooking, and I can read the Silver Palate Cookbook
standing up, but I always sat down to read these." --Anna Quindlen
"Laurie Colwin is both sensible and sensitive when writing about
food, and [her] prose makes me laugh, cry and feel hungry all at
the same time." --The Baltimore Sun
"Reading the essays of Laurie Colwin is a bit like eating comfort
food: warm, familiar and good for the soul." --Hartford
Courant
"A warm, personal remembrance of the foods Colwin ate as a child
and later served to friends and family." --Seattle
Post-Intelligencer "[Colwin] is a beacon of hope. For beginning
cooks, Home Cooking is a grand consciousness and/or
confidence-raiser." --The Oregonian
"Like a classic dish, [Colwin's] writing is magic in its
simplicity." --Charlotte Observer
"Wry and funny." --Dallas Morning News
"Charming and humorous." --USA Today
"Enthralling, but all too short. The only thing to do [is] reread
it. And then turn to her novels." --Buffalo News
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