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Celebrates a life devoted to food, with chapters on how to cook a meal for several hundred people, how to prepare a gourmet dinner with eggplant in your bathtub, and how to make the best fried chicken in the world.
— Santa Fe New Mexican
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The joy of reading Colwin’s food writing is that she is doing much more than teaching you how to function in front of a stove.... Her brusque kitchen style is really a sly way of urging you to trust the strength of your convictions.
— The New Yorker
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As much memoir as cookbook and as much about eating as cooking.
— The New York Times Book Review
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"Everything food writing should be: funny, profound, inspiring and unaffected.
— Nigella Lawson
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The one true kitchen friend.
— The Washington Post
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Laurie Colwin's food thoughts are like phone calls from a dear friend.
— The New York Times
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A delightful tribute to food, friends and kitchen memories.... This charmer is as irresistible as homemade shortbread.
— San Diego Union-Tribune
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A very funny book. Funny enough to make you giggle out loud.
— Newsday
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[Laurie Colwin] is a home cook, like you and me, whose charm and lack of pretension make her wonderfully human and a welcome companion.
— Chicago Tribune
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I decided to lean back and trust Ms. Colwin when she revealed that ‘I am never on a diet regime I cannot be talked out of.’
— Ann Banks, The New York Times Book Review
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Delightful. . . . [Colwin] is funny, and for some reason funny stories about food are as funny as things can get.
— St. Petersburg Times
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Cozy, unpretentious good sense ... characterizes all her food writing.
— The New York Times
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Laurie Colwin is both sensible and sensitive when writing about food, and [her] prose makes me laugh, cry and feel hungry all at the same time.
— The Baltimore Sun
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Reading the essays of Laurie Colwin is a bit like eating comfort food: warm, familiar and good for the soul.
— Hartford Courant
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A warm, personal remembrance of the foods Colwin ate as a child and later served to friends and family.
— Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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[Colwin] is a beacon of hope. For beginning cooks, Home Cooking is a grand consciousness and/or confidence-raiser.
— The Oregonian
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Like a classic dish, [Colwin’s] writing is magic in its simplicity.
— Charlotte Observer
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Wry and funny.
— Dallas Morning News
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Charming and humorous.
— USA Today
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Enthralling, but all too short. The only thing to do [is] reread it. And then turn to her novels.
— Buffalo News