Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
Sentimental Garbage
Justice for Dumb Women
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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This week we're talking about food, friendship and the cult favourite of Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin. Brian Eno once said that everyone who bought The Velvet Underground's first record went on to form a band, and the same can be said of Home Cooking and people who went on to write cookbooks. We talk about recipe writing, the godlike power of food writers, our dowdy twenties, tiny flats, and the uselessness of describing someone as "the new Nora Ephron".
Caroline O'Donoghue has two books out, the most recent of which is Scenes of a Graphic Nature and is available in all book shops. Ella Risbridger is the author of Midnight Chicken and Set Me On Fire, as well as a forthcoming children's fiction series The Secret Detectives.
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| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sentimental Garbage, the podcast where we currently talk about whatever books we want. |
| 0:32.0 | My name is Karen O'Donhoo and I'm alone in the kitchen |
| 0:34.7 | was an eggplant. Joining me is author and as much smoke salmon as you could possibly want, |
| 0:39.2 | Ella Rizbriger. Hi! Hi! Hi! Today we're talking about home cooking by Lori Colwin, a much, much beloved sort of cult book I would say. |
| 0:48.0 | A cult food book. |
| 0:50.0 | A cult book. We could call it a cult book. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.0 | Because people haven't heard of it |
| 0:54.0 | Unless they have in which case and the people that have are there's there's a famous phrase that Brian |
| 0:59.4 | Eno said about I think was the Velvet Underground. He said 30 people bought the Velvet Underground's first album |
| 1:05.1 | but all of those people went down to form bands and I think Lori Colwin and Home Cooking |
| 1:08.8 | you could say the same thing. Everyone who read Home Cooking went on to write a cookbook. |
| 1:13.0 | This is very true, yes. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah. Hi. |
| 1:17.0 | Hey. |
| 1:18.0 | Yes. |
| 1:19.0 | My agent gave me this book as a signing present. |
| 1:22.0 | I had never read it for me. |
| 1:23.2 | Really? I had assumed that this was like a formative part of your cookbook writing |
| 1:28.0 | thing journey. Sort of in the... I signed my idea of my age when I was 21 and I think at 21 you're still young enough for things |
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