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Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
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bookshelves: non-ya, nonfiction, to-buy, recommend, 3-and-a-half-stars, reviewed
Mar 17, 2024
bookshelves: non-ya, nonfiction, to-buy, recommend, 3-and-a-half-stars, reviewed
i love books and food and books about food, and i love laurie colwin.
anyone who can call a terrible dinner one of "the myriad surprises and challenges in this this most interesting and amazing of all possible worlds" is someone i'll read everything by.
i enjoyed so much about this book, especially when i was able to look past the profusion of mayonnaise salads and beef teas and general english foods it foisted upon me.
in other words, good writing is timeless...but good recipes are not.
bottom line: so much fun.
anyone who can call a terrible dinner one of "the myriad surprises and challenges in this this most interesting and amazing of all possible worlds" is someone i'll read everything by.
i enjoyed so much about this book, especially when i was able to look past the profusion of mayonnaise salads and beef teas and general english foods it foisted upon me.
in other words, good writing is timeless...but good recipes are not.
bottom line: so much fun.
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Me too!!!
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I just finished If You Can’t Take the Heat. I think you will like this! Feminism, food, fury and funny. Also Ruth Reichl’s books are great.
Pamela Landis wrote: "I just finished If You Can’t Take the Heat. I think you will like this! Feminism, food, fury and funny. Also Ruth Reichl’s books are great."i thought the new york times review of that book was so out of line it made me want to read it!! that sounds like all the things i like!
