Home cooking: a writer in the kitchen

Published for the first time in the UK, Laurie Colwin's much loved kitchen essays are perfect for fans of Nigella Lawson and Nigel Slater.

Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen,Home Cookingis Laurie Colwin's manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. From the humble hot-plate 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.

Never before published in the UK, this is hilarious, personal and full of Colwin's hard-won expertise.Home Cookingwill speak to the heart (and stomach) of any amateur cook, professional chef, or food lover.

Praise for Laurie Colwin:

'Everything food writing should be: funny, profound, inspiring and unaffected' Nigella Lawson

'I have in my kitchen a book calledHome Cooking. And, in between following the recipes for Extremely Easy Old-Fashioned Beef Stew or Estelle Colwin Snellenberg's Potato Pancakes, I would frequently sit down on a little stool in my kitchen and read through one of the essays in that book. I never read throughJoy of Cooking, and I can readThe Silver Palate Cookbookstanding up, but I always sat down to read these' Anna Quindlen

Laurie Colwin is the author of five novels -Happy All the Time,Family Happiness,Goodbye Without Leaving,A Big Storm Knocked It OverandShine On, Bright and Dangerous Object- three collections of short stories -Passion and Affect,The Lone PilgrimandAnother Marvellous Thing- and two collections of essays,Home CookingandMore Home Cooking. Laurie Colwin died in 1992.