James Beard Foundation Award– and Taste Canada Award–winning author Laura Calder is back with Kitchen Bliss, a warm, funny, and pragmatic collection of stories and recipes that reveal how cooking, feeding, and home-keeping can magically restore balance and calm in our out-of-sync lives. During the years of the global pandemic, Laura Calder, like many home cooks, found herself being drawn into the kitchen and becoming reacquainted with the power that the room can have to restore us when the going gets tough. In Kitchen Bliss, she reflects on how and why the kitchen and the dining table have held such an important place in her life and indeed taught her about happiness.In her inimitably wise, warm, and quirky voice, she shares stories about everything from her shattered childhood fantasies about Sultana cake, to a gastronomically disastrous camel safari, the perilous vicissitudes of daily dishwashing by hand, and how she identifies (positively, if you can believe it) with ground meat. Stories and musings on Emily Post's concept of a "Little Dinner" (for eight, a mere bagatelle!), unsatisfying adventures at cooking school, hopeless kitchens and how to cook in them anyway, and the English aversion to warm toast are all accompanied by recipes to soothe, inspire, and delight. Nothing too fancy here, just perfect recipes for dishes like Disgustingly Rich Potatoes, Salted Caramel Ice Cream, Hainanese Chicken Rice, and The Full Quebecois Breakfast. Come for the stories, stay for the food!Laura has spent her life considering the life-enhancing pleasures of food: cooking, eating, and feeding. The pandemic gave her a new sense of urgency to share what she has learned. She says, "Life isn't always a candy shop of delights, pandemic or no pandemic. Often we find ourselves in uncomfortable places and we must learn to create sweetness for ourselves out of whatever it is we've got—and that sometimes can seem like nothing but a whole lot of lemons. Well, at least that's a start! We all know where to find the lemons: in the kitchen."This is a delightfully entertaining book full of memories, insights, good advice, and humor that will inspire readers to get in the kitchen, tie on an apron, and discover their own form of kitchen bliss.
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Culinary ArtsTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Hopeless Kitchens I Have Known
- Chapter 2: Cake Lessons
- Chapter 3: A Little Dinner
- Chapter 4: 2… 4… 6… 8…
- Chapter 5: Dinner Undone
- Chapter 6: My Large Appliance
- Chapter 7: Fusional Food
- Chapter 8: Ageless Appetites
- Chapter 9: Right Table, Wrong Time
- Chapter 10: Initiations
- Chapter 11: An Education
- Chapter 12: Thank U
- Chapter 13: The Dishwashers
- Chapter 14: Toast
- Chapter 15: Very Grounding
- Chapter 16: Everyday Etiquette for Aliens
- Chapter 17: The Business of Lunch
- Chapter 18: Share and Share Alike
- Chapter 19: Recipe for Life
- Chapter 20: Taming the Beast
- Chapter 21: The Whole Point of Pleasure
- Chapter 22: Your Order, Madam?
- Chapter 23: Close to Godliness
- Chapter 24: Nothing Heroic
- Chapter 25: The Trusty Gut
- Chapter 26: The Final Feast
- Chapter 27: Considering Breakfast
- Chapter 28: A Place at the Table
- Chapter 29: Dream Kitchen
- Chapter 30: Dressed for Dinner
- Chapter 31: Cottage Cookery
- Chapter 32: Dessert Be Damned
- Chapter 33: Feeling Greens
- Chapter 34: A Raison d’Être
- Chapter 35: Hosting Goals
- Chapter 36: In Praise of Boring Food
- Chapter 37: Grace Under Pressure
- Afterword: What Is Your Kitchen Bliss?
- Recipes by Course
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright
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