A Homemade Life A Homemade Life

A Homemade Life

Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

    • 4.1 • 39 Ratings
    • $11.99
    • $11.99

Publisher Description

From acclaimed food writer, restaurant owner, and author of The Fixed Stars, an elegant memoir of life and food featuring with recipes throughout.

When Molly Wizenberg's father died of cancer, everyone told her to go easy on herself, to hold off on making any major decisions for a while. But when she tried going back to her apartment in Seattle and returning to graduate school, she knew it wasn't possible to resume life as though nothing had happened. So she went to Paris, a city that held vivid memories of a childhood trip with her father, of early morning walks on the cobbled streets of the Latin Quarter and the taste of her first pain au chocolat. She was supposed to be doing research for her dissertation, but more often, she found herself peering through the windows of chocolate shops, trekking across town to try a new pâtisserie, or tasting cheeses at outdoor markets, until one evening when she sat in the Luxembourg Gardens reading cookbooks until it was too dark to see, she realized that her heart was not in her studies but in the kitchen.

At first, it wasn't clear where this epiphany might lead. Like her long letters home describing the details of every meal and market, Molly's blog Orangette started out merely as a pleasant pastime. But it wasn't long before her writing and recipes developed an international following. Every week, devoted readers logged on to find out what Molly was cooking, eating, reading, and thinking, and it seemed she had finally found her passion. But the story wasn't over: one reader in particular, a curly-haired, food-loving composer from New York, found himself enchanted by the redhead in Seattle, and their email correspondence blossomed into a long-distance romance.

In A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, Molly Wizenberg recounts a life with the kitchen at its center. From her mother's pound cake, a staple of summer picnics during her childhood in Oklahoma, to the eggs she cooked for her father during the weeks before his death, food and memories are intimately entwined. You won't be able to decide whether to curl up and sink into the story or to head straight to the market to fill your basket with ingredients for Cider-Glazed Salmon and Pistachio Cake with Honeyed Apricots.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2009
March 3
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
224
Pages
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
1.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Moemann ,

Great writing and recipies...poor iBook design.

I bought this iBook for my wife to read and use on her new iPad2. She loves the recipies, and the writing style. Regularly tries out the recipies, and they all usually turn out great. But one complaint we both have, is that it is hard to look up and bookmark the recipies.
THERE IS NO RECIPE INDEX!!!
You have to first search using a keyword, and once it finds the recipie, you bookmark it, but it saves th bookmark under the CHAPTER name, not the RECIPIE name. Unbelievable!!!
In order to find the recipie again, you have to try and remember the name of the chapter....either that, or redo the search.
VERY frustrating. Quite incredibly stupid, really.
Just for that, I give this 3 stars, but the rating is for the design of the ibook edition, not the quality of the recipies. They get 4.5 stars.

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