Home Cooking

<p><b>'Everything food writing should be: funny, profound, inspiring and unaffected' Nigella Lawson<br></b><br>Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, <i>Home Cooking</i> is Laurie Colwin's manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. From the humble hot-plate 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.<br><br>Never before published in the UK, this is hilarious, personal and full of Colwin's hard-won expertise. <i>Home Cooking</i> will speak to the heart (and stomach) of any amateur cook, professional chef, or food lover.<br><br><b>'A feast </b><b>. . . </b><b>witty, no-nonsense</b><b>. </b><b><i>Home Cooking</i></b><b> is </b><b>a culinary companion as comfortable beside your bed as your cooker</b><b>. It has an essay for everyone who loves to eat and demonstrates that home is where the heart is - and the stomach happiest'</b> <i>Observer</i><br><br><b>'Laurie Colwin's food thoughts are like phone calls from a dear friend' </b><i>New Yorker</i><br><br><b>'Shrewd, witty and consistently enjoyable' </b><i>Mail on Sunday</i></p> <p><b>'Everything food writing should be: funny, profound, inspiring and unaffected' Nigella Lawson<br></b><br>Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, <i>Home Cooking</i> is Laurie Colwin's manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. From the humble hot-plate 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.<br><br>Never before published in the UK, this is hilarious, personal and full of Colwin's hard-won expertise. <i>Home Cooking</i> will speak to the heart (and stomach) of any amateur cook, professional chef, or food lover.<br><br><b>'A feast </b><b>. . . </b><b>witty, no-nonsense</b><b>. </b><b><i>Home Cooking</i></b><b> is </b><b>a culinary companion as comfortable beside your bed as your cooker</b><b>. It has an essay for everyone who loves to eat and demonstrates that home is where the heart is - and the stomach happiest'</b> <i>Observer</i><br><br><b>'Laurie Colwin's food thoughts are like phone calls from a dear friend' </b><i>New Yorker</i><br><br><b>'Shrewd, witty and consistently enjoyable' </b><i>Mail on Sunday</i></p>