{"id":1181,"date":"2009-04-12T13:07:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T13:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2015-07-07T13:49:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T18:49:03","slug":"cookbook_a_home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/04\/cookbook_a_home.html","title":{"rendered":"Cookbook: A Homemade Life, Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, by Molly Wizenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not every cookbook has more to read than recipes and pantry stocking ideas.  So in a way this reminded me of <strong>Nigel Slater&#8217;s Kitchen Dairies<\/strong> (love that book!) which also, in a different way, gives you context around the recipes.  In this book, however, the context for each recipe is a memory.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a eulogy to her father, a memoir of her childhood, a record of courtship with her now husband, and a engaging testament to the importance certain meals can take on due to the events surrounding them.<\/p>\n<p>Great quote (I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll know why I like it):<br \/>\n<em>I soon learned that Sam consumes books the way most of us consume food, which, though I do prefer to eat, is a quality I much admire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A discussed, but not present recipe I hope is on her web site somewhere:  the chocolate &#8220;rad&#8221; (cookie).<\/p>\n<p>Recipes I have dog-eared to potentially try first:  Bouchons au Thon, Rum Cream Pie with Graham Cracker Crust, Chana Masala, Custard-Filled Corn Bread, Pistachio Cake with Honeyed Apricots.<\/p>\n<p>Place I need to go in Paris:  L&#8217;As due Fallafel, &#8220;<em>purveyor of some of the finest fried chickpea balls this side of Israel<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not every cookbook has more to read than recipes and pantry stocking ideas. So in a way this reminded me of Nigel Slater&#8217;s Kitchen Dairies (love that book!) which also, in a different way, gives you context around the recipes. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/04\/cookbook_a_home.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-food","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2975,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}