Home Cooking

Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen,Home Cookingis Laurie Colwinrs"s manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. From the humble hotplate of her one-room apartment to the crowded kitchens of bustling parties, Colwin regales us with tales of meals gone both magnificently well and disastrously wrong. Hilarious, personal, and full of Colwinrs"s hard-won expertise,Home Cookingwill speak to the heart of any amateur cook, professional chef, or food lover.

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

Foreword
Home Cooking: An Introduction
Starting Out in the Kitchen
The Low-Tech Person's Batterie de Cuisine
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant
How to Fry Chicken
Potato Salad
Feeding the Fussy
Bread Baking Without Agony
Friday Night Supper
How to Disguise Vegetables
Fish
Feeding the Multitudes
Chocolate
The Same Old Thing
Red Peppers
Dinner Parties
How to Avoid Grilling
Nursery Food
Bitter Greens
Soup
English Food
Without Salt
Stuffing: A Confession
Flank Steak: The Neglected Cut
Kitchen Horrors
About Salad
Repulsive Dinners: A Memoir
Chicken Salad
Easy Cooking for Exhausted People
How to Give a Party
How to Make Gingerbread
Stuffed Breast of Veal: A Bad Idea
Black Cake
Index