A new favourite author

I dont know how many people know this but I LOVE reading about food. Food memoirs are a pleasant way to read while eating and most of them (read MFK Fisher, Jaques Pepin , David Lebovitz) have received stains of whatever I am eating then. I avoid reading them any time else for the fear of developing phantom hunger.

A seemingly new but an old favourite Anne Hood (whose the knitting circle is dogeared at aaibai's) led me to Laurie Colwin and now I have a bit yellowed Home cooking and More home cooking (yellowed because she died young at the age of 52 in 1992)

Laurie colwin is very straightforward. No high fi, dictionary seeking language but here is someone who genuinely loved food and not only that but also knew how to write. People do like Ruth Reichl but as many as books I borrowed of her, they were a one time read. Needless to say, I preferred spending my pennies on Colwin, Lebovitz (his humor is wierd and can be understood only by wierdos like me) MFK ( a legend but nice to read and reread the encyclopedic volume I have consisting of her 6 books) and ofcourse some who have blogs like bongmom or the wednesday chef. 

As I finish this writeup, I searched and kept a stack of books that I essentially dont see the purpose on the bookshelf. Parenting books taken and never read, some book memoirs that I am not keen in reading again. In the near future I can see selling them on a website more in a hope to circulate them than gaining some money for them.

But Laurie Colwin, MFK or Jaccques Pepin...they are here to stay.