A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's Molly Wizenberg Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1416551069 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (March 23, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1416551069
- ISBN-13: 978-1416551065
- Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
A book that begins with a father, surveying the dinner table, remarking, "You know, we eat better at home than most people do in restaurants" --- how can you not be instantly hooked? Especially when you learn he's not praising a wife who's studied at Cordon Bleu and whips out four-star masterpieces night after night. As his daughter tells us:
"There were hot dogs sometimes, and cans of baked beans. Our garlic came in a jar, minced and ready, and our butter was known to go rancid."
So what was so great about meals at the Oklahoma City home of Morris Wizenberg?
"It was the steady rhythm of meeting in the kitchen every night, sitting down at the table, and sharing a meal. Dinner didn't come through a swinging door, balanced on the arm of an anonymous waiter; it was something that we made together. We built our family that way --- in the kitchen, seven nights a week. We built a life for ourselves, together around that table. And although I couldn't admit it then, my father was showing me, in his pleasure and in his pride, how to live wholly, hungrily, loudly."
And so it came to pass, right there on page two of "A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table", that I fell in love with Molly Wizenberg. Because she had what so many of us want --- a childhood with a steady rhythm and loving parents. And because she had incorporated what she learned during those meals so she can, without embarrassment, write directly and emotionally about her family and its meals.
This book has 50 recipes, and many of them are fine and useful, if a bit tilted in favor of cakes and breads, pancakes and French toast. But they're not the reason that [...
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