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Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food
Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food | Ann Hood
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In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls. From her Italian American childhood through singlehood, raising and feeding a growing family, divorce, and a new marriage to food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Growing up, she tasted love in her grandmothers tomato sauce and dreamed of her mothers special-occasion Fancy Lady Sandwiches. Later, the kitchen became the heart of Hoods own home. She cooked pork roast to warm her first apartment, used two cups of dried basil for her first attempt at making pesto, taught her children how to make their favorite potatoes, found hope in her daughters omelet after a divorce, and fell in love againwith both her husband and his foolproof chicken stock. Hood tracks her lifelong journey in the kitchen with twenty-seven heartfelt essays, each accompanied by a recipe (or a few). In Carbonara Quest, searching for the perfect spaghetti helped her cope with lonely nights as a flight attendant. In the award-winning essay The Golden Silver Palate, she recounts the history of her fail-safe dinner party recipe for Chicken Marbellaand how it did fail her when she was falling in love. Hoods simple, comforting recipes also include her mothers famous meatballs, hearty Italian Beef Stew, classic Indiana Fried Chicken, the perfect grilled cheese, and a deliciously summery peach pie. With Hoods signature humor and tenderness, Kitchen Yarns spills tales of loss and starting from scratch, family love and feasts with friends, and how the perfect meal is one that tastes like home.
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Erynecki
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With tenderness, Hood narrates the story of her life in meals she‘s made. A memoir of food essays that have appeared in a wide range of publications, she shares her family and journeys in the kitchen and ultimately delivers a book that makes me want to reach for a bowl of creamy mashed potatoes.

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kspenmoll
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#alphabetgame #LetterK #AnnHood

I highly recommend Ann Hood‘s essays about her lifelong journey in the kitchen — honest,funny, smart, mouthwatering( recipes),tender, visceral, & graceful. Her wide open, vulnerable writing welcomes you into her world of family, knitting, writing, cooking, coping, grieving, loving, & accepting life‘s challenges. It‘s time to make her fresh tomato pie recipe! 🍅🥧

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Rhondareads
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My type of book family food life stories romance heartache shared by the wonderful author Ann Hood I‘m a fan of her fiction and non fiction books.An added bonus recipes.💃📚.

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BethFishReads
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Loved this memoir with recipes. Hood talks about family, motherhood, marriage, love, and loss — and the food that ties us to memories and loved ones. Recipes included. 🎧 Nina Alvamar‘s performance was great, but if you want to make any of the recipes, you‘ll want to read this in print.

Lea I‘ve been seeing this one everywhere all of a sudden. Sounds like it would be a good listen. 5y
BethFishReads @Lea l really liked the audio but was happy to have an eGalley so I had copies of the recipes 5y
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Patty4

I want this book

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kyraleseberg
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Kitchen Yarns chronicles a life of family, home, love, loss and its one constant comfort: food. A collection of essays covering some truly heartbreaking tragedies with food and memory as catharsis.