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Overview

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.

A delightful reading cookbook by novelist and gourmet cook, Laurie Colwin.

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Overview

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.

A delightful reading cookbook by novelist and gourmet cook, Laurie Colwin.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780060955304
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 5/1/2000
  • Edition description: Reissue
  • Pages: 208
  • Series: Harper Perennial
  • Product dimensions: 5.31 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 0.46 (d)

Meet the Author

Laurie Colwin
Laurie Colwin
Laurie Colwin is the author of five novels: Happy All the Time, Family Happiness, Goodbye Without Leaving, Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object, and A Big Storm Knocked It Over; three collections of short stories: Passion and Affect, Another Marvelous Thing, and The Lone Pilgrim; and two collections of essays: Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. She died in 1992.

Biography

Born in Manhattan, Laurie Colwin grew up in Long Island, Chicago, and Philadelphia, but it was the middle and upper-class city dwellers of New York City that proved fertile ground for her short stories and novels.

Colwin was the editor of her high school newspaper, then attended Bard College in upstate New York, the Sorbonne in Paris, the New School for Social Research and Columbia University in New York City before establishing a successful career in publishing. She started with Sanford Greenberger International Publishers and eventually worked with a string of leading publishers, including Putnam, Pantheon, Viking Press and E. P. Dutton. Although she had a satisfying career as an editor, Colwin nurtured her writing style during these years as well, and in 1977, she left the publishing world and devoted herself entirely to writing.

One of Colwin's first short stories was published in The New Yorker in 1969, and she followed this early success with stories in Cosmopolitan, Playboy, Redbook, Mademoiselle and Harper's. Her first book of stories, Passion and Affect (1974), proved her talent as a writer -- the Los Angeles Times cheered that she had "single-handedly revitalized the short story." In 1977, Colwin won an O. Henry Award for short fiction for the story The Lone Pilgrim, which was later the title of a collection of 14 stories released in 1981. By the time her final book of short stories, Another Marvelous Thing, hit the stands in 1986, Colwin's readers and critics were hooked on her ability to examine troubled relationships with a refreshing clarity and sensitivity.

In between publishing short stories, Colwin delivered a number of unforgettable novels. Her first novel, Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object (1975), tells the touching story of a widow's attempts to cope with a life she never imagined. She soon released her second novel, Happy All the Time (1978), which critics and readers loved for the amusing portrayal of the love lives of middle and upper-class men and women. Newsweek said of the book, "the successful depiction of happiness is rare enough to qualify Colwin's novel as daring experimental fiction." Her third novel, Family Happiness (1982), deftly explores the nuances of an extra-marital affair, and Goodbye Without Leaving (1990) is a hilarious look at a woman baring her rock-and-roll soul.

Food and its rituals play a precious role in Colwin's life and career; given her talent for exploring the comic, vulnerable side of humanity in her fiction, it's no surprise that her non-fiction does the same. She wrote regular columns for Gourmet magazine -- insightful and soothing articles and recipes that celebrate the joys of cooking for one or many. More essays and recipes were published in the book Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen (1988). Part memoir, part cookbook, Home Cooking is full of honest and downright funny essays with titles such as "Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant," "Repulsive Dinners: A Memoir" and "Stuffed Breast of Veal: A Bad Idea."

In October 1992, Laurie Colwin suffered a fatal heart attack in her home in Manhattan at the young age of 48. She is survived by her husband and daughter, as well as millions of devoted readers who have been missing her sparkling wit ever since. Her last two books were published posthumously in 1993. More Home Cooking, her second book of culinary essays, continues Colwin's passion for discovering what makes good food great. A Big Storm Knocked It Over, her final novel, once again attempts to unravel the comic mysteries of human relationships.

Ultimately, Colwin wrote both fiction and non-fiction in a quest to get at the core of humanity – to understand love wherever it existed, recognize the humor in humans, and to give readers something they might not have realized they were missing: a happy ending.

Good To Know

A talented chef, Colwin cooked for student protesters occupying campus buildings during the 1968 uprisings at Columbia University, and later volunteered as a cook for the Coalition for the Homeless and the Antonio Olivieri Shelter for Homeless Women.

Among her achievements as an editor, Colwin discovered author Fran Liebowitz while at Dutton, and she edited and translated works by Isaac Bashevis Singer, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature.

From fan and fellow columnist Nancy Pate's touching tribute to Colwin:

"None of us had ever met Colwin except through her writing. But we felt as if we knew her from those stories.

"We knew that she liked animals and small children, quilts and pretty plates, family and friends, men who were good dancers and good kissers.

"We knew that she loved music, from classical greats like Boccherini and Brahms, to rock 'n' roll legends like the Everly Brothers and Jerry Lee Lewis. She knew all the words to the Crystals' 'He's a Rebel.'

She loved to read, and to cook."

    1. Date of Birth:
      June 14, 1944
    2. Place of Birth:
      New York, New York
    1. Date of Death:
      October 25, 1992
    2. Place of Death:
      New York, New York
    1. Education:
      B.A., Bard College; M.A., Columbia University

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  • Posted January 23, 2010

    For those who love great prose and great food

    I discovered Laurie Colwin's books by reading a blog on the website of the (very sadly now lapsed) Gourmet magazine. I started by reading "Home Cooking" and then "More Home Cooking" and have moved on to her novels. If you like Barbara Pym novels, and if you like to cook and to think about food, you'll appreciate Laurie Colwin!

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    A humorous and easy read

    While reading this book, you will feel like you are sitting at the author's table, having a cup of coffee and reminiscing. Colwin has a gentle style and can paint a picture for you, transporting you right into her life. Before you know it you'll be laughing over her account of picky dinner guests, tiny kitchens, weird ingredients, disastrous cooking failures, and happy surprises. A short, pleasurable read, it will definitely make you want to hop in the kitchen and whip something tasty up.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 24, 2003

    Laurie Colwin where she loved to be - in the kitchen!

    I had always loved Laurie Colwin's fiction, and then I stumbled upon Home Cooking. With the same warmth and humor, Laurie Colwin invites you into her kitchen - combining stories of life and friendship with recipes that turn your kitchen into a cozy and welcoming place to spend time with family and friends. It is utterly charming - as was she.

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  • Posted November 26, 2011

    One of my favorite books of all time.

    And considering that I personally own more than 5,000 books, that's saying a lot. Each of the stories in this book is beautifully written in tight prose, evocative and dreamy. I have to stop after I read each one so I can absorb it. I re-read Ms. Colwin's books, all of them, time and again and I never get tired of them. I have searched in vain for another writer as good as she was, and I haven't found one yet. If you enjoy cozy writing that is beautiful too, buy this book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 29, 2011

    Highly recommend this book

    If you want pure comfort, in your books and in your kitchen, this is the book for you. Ms. Colwin's writing style was simply superb. And every single one of her recipes works.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 8, 2005

    This woman is no Ruth Reichl

    NO ONE can live up to the wonderful food writings + memoirs of Ruth Reichl. This book by Colwin is poor at best. The essays are boring and give us no insight into Colwin's family, upbringing, and events that occured in her life. It is boring essays about cooking in a too small apartment kitchen or cooking pretentious boring bland food for her friends. The recipes included are too vauge, what is a large can of tomatoes, it is the 8 oz, 16 oz, or 28 oz can?!?!!?!?

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