More Home Cooking
A Writer Returns to the Kitchen

"more of something you liked" is a great title format. true to form, this was too charming for its own good. even if it had too many gelatin-based creations and unique uses of beef for my taste. i have grown to really love laurie colwin, and i love these books because they're insights into her actual......more

I have read this beloved cookbook so many times that as I skim through favourite bits they almost feel like my own well-worn stories. I associate this book, entirely, with my first year in England. I had not long been married, and I was pregnant. I knew almost no one, but I was lucky in my next-door......more

I came into my marriage knowing how to make easy over eggs, which Dad asked me to make him on Sunday mornings, and how to stir gravy Mom had thickened with Wondra. Otherwise, I knew how to grate potatoes for Mom’s Potato Pancakes, use the can opener, and pour milk on cold cereal. Mom gave me recipe......more

I truly love Laurie Colwin, and was personally devastated when she died in 1992. I've read all of her books, and though this one is not a work of fiction, it is every bit as wonderful as the others. The book is a series of essays Colwin wrote for different publications about food and cooking. It's a......more

i didn’t think this would top “home cooking” — the original is almost always better and hard to beat — but it did. i think i love this one even more. oh laurie colwin, you were gone too soon.......more