Kitchen Yarns Ann Hood

Notes on life love and food ann hood.

Kitchen yarns ann hood. From the kitchen of her italian grandmother gogo through her career as a flight attendant a seemingly perfect american suburban existence the death of a child divorce and fairy tale like second chance at true romance hood recalls each moment through the meals she was preparing recipes both great and well not so great. Ann hood s kitchen yarns w w. So good in fact that she can even make a person reconsider her lifelong dread of ham salad finger sandwiches. And you don t even have to be a cook at all to enjoy her thoughts on how food impacts life and love.

Kitchen yarns is a casual memoir with food. Kitchen yarns is perfect holiday season fare but be forewarned. From her italian american childhood through raising and feeding a growing family and cooking with her new husband food writer michael ruhlman ann hood has long appreciated the power of good food. Eminently readable kitchen yarns ann hood s tender witty and funny voyage through a life of food reminds us that the visceral taste memories of our past are essential benchmarks of our life and that the stories of a family are always best felt and expressed through those dishes.

In kitchen yarns pairing her signature humor and tenderness with simple comforting recipes hood spins tales of loss and starting from scratch family love and feasts with friends and how the. Norton 24 95 256p isbn 978 0 393 24950 7. Its chatty and fun as if you and she were sitting in her family room in two big cozy chairs each with a glass of wine something delicious to munch on and sharing stories of your lives. Notes on life love and food kindle edition by hood ann.

You ll want to keep both kitchen and kleenex close at hand people these tales of ingredients recipes and meals will lift your spirits bethanne patrick washington post written in a series of deliciously digestible essays the wistful and wonderful kitchen yarns is a. Ann hood is a gifted storyteller. As i mentioned in my reading wrap up for february kitchen yarns by ann hood the chapters were short and the recipes detailed. Norton 229 pp out of four arrives just in time to savor in the season when food becomes the expression of family memories and love.

Notes on life love and food. More by and about this author. Ann hood is a gifted storyteller. Ann hood recounts her life through its phases of learning to cook and relationships connected to those times.

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