A Homemade Life
Format: kindle
ASIN: B003YCQ1JU
Publish date: March 3rd 2009
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 337
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Book Club,
Adult,
Cookbooks,
Cooking,
Foodie,
Food Writing
Part essay-collection, part cookbook, I was greatly charmed by this book by Molly Wizenberg. Her essays were short and sweet, and fully explained to the reader, Molly's love of cooking and anything cooking-related. The recipes were unusual, and most of them sounded absolutely delicious. I've bookmar...
A combination of memoir and recipes. I liked the way Wizenberg was able to weave together different portions of her life in a way that didn’t feel sort of self-indulgent or self-congratulatory. And some of the recipes look really good. [Mar. 2011]
Bone-shaking grief…redemptive love…and the finest chocolate cake ever to grace an oven…When Molly Wizenberg began her blog Orangette in 2004, she thought it would make a great storage space for her musings about life, food, and how the two influence each other. She had no idea her warmth, candor, an...
I wanted to really love this book. And I did, until the irritatingly gushy chapters about the guy she meets online who is a fan of her web site, Orangette. She's a good writer, but her writing took a significant turn for the precious when she wrote about her "magic" boyfriend/fiance/husband. I got t...
Yesterday was the 2nd time this year that I cried on an airplane flight and no, it was not fear of flying. The first time was when I watched 'Marley and Me' and had to borrow napkins from the stranger sitting next to me. Yesterday, I read A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg, and halfway through the...