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A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table (Hardcover)

by Molly Wizenberg (Author)

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Product Details

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Mar 3 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416551050
ISBN-13: 978-1416551058
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 3.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 545 g

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #7,702 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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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.

About the Author

Molly Wizenberg is a freelance food writer and the creator of the award-winning blog Orangette. She is a regular contributor to Bon App - tit, and her writing has been featured on NPR.org and PBS.org and has been praised in The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and The Seattle Times. Wizenberg has degrees in human biology, French, and cultural anthropology, but in 2005, she left the world of academia to write full-time.

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4.0 out of 5 stars no photos!, April 2 2009

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The writing, of course, is lovely. I was so looking forward to receiving A Homemade Life and had set it up in my head how it was going to be. And how it was going to be involved photos. Lots and lots of photos. The photos on Orangette are so lovely and I wanted to see them all (well, most of them) in one place. So imagine my surprise when I got the book and there are no photos. Not a one.

The lack of photos is not a flaw in the book, per se, but it's odd. You gotta admit, it's odd. Why? Why no photos? I am determined to love the book anyway, and am a few chapters in and all is going swimmingly in the writing department. But I would be head over heels, curled up in bed grinning if it had photos. 'Stead I'm here.

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