About this title: A memoir with a practical purpose and a cookbook with a life beyond the kitchen, this resource offers 50 recipes full of fresh flavors, and the author's lessons from the kitchen that show who people are, who they love, and who they want to be.
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781416551058ISBN:1416551050
Description: New. A memoir with a practical purpose and a cookbook with a life beyond the kitchen, this resource offers 50 recipes full of fresh flavors, and the author's lessons from the kitchen that show who people are, who they love, and who they want to be. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2009-03-03
ISBN-13:9781416551058ISBN:1416551050
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"Some books about food demand savoring, others leave a bad taste in your mouth. But I gobbled up Molly Wizenburg's A Homemade Life like it was a pan of seven-layer bars. I know that some say that writers who started as bloggers often don't make good writers, but I think Wizenburg's book is an exception. I also know that some authors (like Robert Wolke in his Einstein series) include recipes to go along with each chapter of related text. But the stories from Wizenburg's life were so interesting that it seemed like the stories were a natural fit. I often skim through the recipes in books like these, but I actually made Wizenburg's ratatouille the day after I finished the book (filled with ingredients from our CSA-- yum!). I will admit that the second half of the book was better than the first (also true with a pan of seven-layer bars consumed in a single day)-- once she fell in love it started to feel too gushy about her perfect husband and their perfect wedding, etc... Maybe if I'd paced myself a little better, I would have appreciated the second half more. That's how I usually feel about baked goods."
"I was fully prepared to skim this book. I am not a big fan of food or cooking, so when my friends recommended a book that included a passionate love for both, well suffice it to say I was a little apprehensive. That said, however, I loved this book. Not only can this woman eat, she can write. I have never heard anyone ascribe healing powers to cake and I have never seen writing that used "people adjectives" for food and "food adjectives" for people. She once explained that a friend of hers, during a soup phase, had a "tawdry love affair with the food mill". Hilarious. What endured me to this woman the most was her appreciation for ginger with chocolate (I thought I was the only one who liked that), and she is a hopeless romantic. She used the word "magic" to describe meeting her husband. Lastly, when reading this book be prepared to see this a lot: (do not use low fat or skim) and (use heavy cream, not milk)."
"This is really the ideal book for reading during a meal, because she makes you hungry and it's good to have food in front of you already. Over a meal, it just sharpens the appetite instead of torturing you. I had the book on hold for ages, and in the meantime I kind of forgot what the book was supposed to be about. If I ever knew, I forgot that she was a blogger, and I also had this vague idea that the book was about homemade things in general, like sewing and canning and handicrafts, rather than just food. But I'm quite pleased with what it is, and I also like her comments on blogging. She talks about trying to create a blog that strikes a balance between the personal and the informative. "I write about my life some, too, since it intersects with food roughly three times a day. I don't think many of us are terribly interested in recipes that have no stories or real-life context" (p. 195). Which sums up my feelings about blogs exactly (substituting books for food much of the time) - I don't want to read something 100% personal, but I don't want book reviews or food detached from the person who wrote/created them. At any rate, I recommend the book - the pacing is good, without having that meandery feeling that some memoir-ish books get (I'm thinking of On Rue Tatin, also about food and life). And it makes me want to try the recipes the end each chapter."
"More than a few times, my darling wife has expressed bemused (but perhaps genuine) alarm at my obsession with the food blog Orangette and, more to the point, with the charming red-headed blogger--Molly Wizenberg--herself. It's no big secret that the path to my heart tends to go through my (ever-expanding) tummy, and many of the recipes on Orangette are now among the tastiest in my repertoire: her slow-roasted tomatoes served with aged goat cheese on toasted baguette slices, her decadently fudgy chocolate cake, her boiled kale with fried egg...
Reading A Homemade Life is a lot like reading Ms. Wizenberg's blog, which is a good thing, really. Her writing is chatty, conspiratorial, big-hearted, and a little bit mushy--never just giving a recipe straight, but always setting the scene, always telling a story. Reading her writing, you almost get tricked into thinking that you and Molly are old pals, getting caught up over a cup of good Seattle coffee.
She's not really my friend, my wife likes to remind me, a little snarkily. But hot damn, the girl has got a singular talent for writing an essay that'll make you want to get up RIGHT NOW and cook what she just cooked. And that, in my humble opinion, is nothing to sneeze at."
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