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Home cooking: [a writer in the kitchen] / Laurie Colwin ; illustrated by Anna Shapiro.

Penn Museum Library TX652 .C714 2000
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Colwin, Laurie.
Contributor:
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cooking.
Physical Description:
x, 193 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition:
HarperPerennial edition (reissue 2000).
Other Title:
Subtitle from cover: Writer in the kitchen
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 2000.
Summary:
Share the unsurpassed pleasures of discovering, cooking, and eating good, simple food with this beloved book. Equal parts cookbook and memoir, Laurie Colwin's Home Cooking combines her insightful, good-humored writing style with her lifelong passion for wonderful cuisine in essays such as "Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant," "Repulsive Dinners: A Memoir," and "Stuffed Breast of Veal: A Bad Idea." Home Cooking is truly a feast for body and soul.
Contents:
Home Cooking: An Introduction 3
Starting Out in the Kitchen 7
The Low-Tech Person's Batterie de Cuisine 15
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant 21
How to Fry Chicken 29
Potato Salad 33
Feeding the Fussy 38
Bread Baking Without Agony 44
Friday Night Supper 51
How to Disguise Vegetables 59
Fish 64
Feeding the Multitudes 70
Chocolate 78
The Same Old Thing 83
Red Peppers 90
Dinner Parties 95
How to Avoid Grilling 101
Nursery Food 106
Bitter Greens 111
Soup 116
English Food 121
Without Salt 128
Stuffing: A Confession 132
Flank Steak: The Neglected Cut 136
Kitchen Horrors 140
About Salad 146
Repulsive Dinners: A Memoir 150
Chicken Salad 156
Easy Cooking for Exhausted People 160
How to Give a Party 164
How to Make Gingerbread 171
Stuffed Breast of Veal: A Bad Idea 176
Black Cake 180.
Notes:
Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1988.
Includes index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
ISBN:
0060955309
OCLC:
44893608

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