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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.
- 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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