Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin

HarperPerennial, 1988 - Cookery - 193 pages

The highly acclaimed and national bestselling author of Goodbye Without Leaving presents a delightfully delicious and witty exposition on what, how, and why we eat. With recipes, tips, and personal recollections, Home Cooking is part memoir, part cookbook, and part warm discourse on the joys of simple food. 26 line drawings.

What people are saying

Review: Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

User Review  - Christy Baker - Goodreads

My recollection of this long ago read book is engaging essays on food and cooking interspersed with some recipes. Of this genre of food writing, my favorite still remains Theresa Lust's volume, Pass the Polenta, but Colwin's collections certainly engaged and entertained.

Review: Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

User Review  - elizabeth - Goodreads

I finished this book in just over one sitting. Laurie Colwin's 'Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen' is comprised of a series of conversational essays on food and cooking, with some of her own ...

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Home Cooking
• Author: Laurie Colwin
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: HarperPerennial, 1988
• ISBN: 0060975229, 9780060975227
• Length: 193 pages