Tag: More Home Cooking

• Book Review: A Chest Full of Words by Rebecca Gugger and Simon Rothlisberger, translated from the German by Tim Mohr

  As an English and literature teacher for nearly 20 years, I have coached (and in some cases, coaxed) middle schoolers on essay writing, including the use of descriptive writing, more specifically the use of adjectives and adverbs. One method I used was to read with them an example of good descriptive writing, starting with Chapter…

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  September 23, 2024

  books, Essay

  A Chest Full of Words, Annie Dillard, baking, book-review, books, British, chicken, cooking, English, essays, food, language arts, Laurie Colwin, library, literature, middle school, More Home Cooking, NetGalley, nonfiction, NorthSouth Books Inc., Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, reading, Rebecca Gugger, Simon Rothlisberger, teacher, teaching, The Metamorphisis, Tim Mohr, translated from the German, vocabulary, writer, writing

• Preserving Old Traditions

  Recently I was rereading for the umpteenth time Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin and its sequel, More Home Cooking. In her inimitable style, Colwin describes her amazement at the moment that she realized that her husband was indeed a European: she found him eating paper-thin pancakes smeared with jam instead of butter and syrup as…

  michardillo

  July 19, 2015

  Essay

  Ball, Barefoot Contessa, canning, crystalized ginger, garlic scapes, grapefruit, Home Cooking, Ina Garten, jam, jelly, Laurie Colwin, marmalade, Mason, More Home Cooking, orange, pectin, pickled okra, preserves, preserving, strawberry preserves

• A Love Letter to Laurie Colwin

  Everyone has a list of people, either alive or deceased, that they would love to have dinner with. I’m sure there is a BuzzFeed list of the top candidates for those lists, chock-full of celebrities and famous people. For me, however, at the top of my list, is Laurie Colwin. Born and raised in Manhattan,…

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  July 12, 2015

  books, Essay

  food essays, Home Cooking, Janet Yake, Jeff Gordinier, Juris Jurjevics, Laurie Colwin, lemons, Lemons and Limes, literature, Manhattan, monotypes, More Home Cooking, New York Times, non-fiction, Rosa Jurjevics, teacher, teaching