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The Pleasures Of Cooking For One (2009)

by Judith Jones(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0307270726 (ISBN13: 9780307270726)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Knopf

review 1: I will carry this book with me wherever I go. Well, not literally, but it won't be left behind to go to Lifeline or St Vinnies if I move. It is elegant. Everytime I feel sorry for myself or eat cheese on toast for dinner I get out the fine china and linen because this book has shown me that I am worth the trouble. It sits on my coffee table not on my cookbook shelf, because it is more about life than cooking. Love it!
review 2: This is a lovely book--it has two uses. The first is that the author, who clearly loves to cook, talks about losing her husband, and how she thought she would never cook again, or at least not enjoy it because it was so wrapped up in their relationship, and discovering that indeed it was possible to do that--and to do it with elan--not ... morejust to cut recipes in a quarter and go forward, but to actually cook as if treating yourself to something. She is the woman who edited the Julia Child cookbook, so she has a place in the cooking hall of fame, which would be more widely realized because of Nora Ephron's movie. I enjoyed the part where she talks about food as much as the recipes, and would give it as a gift for those I know who cook for one with some frequency. less

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