num_pages: 304
description: James Beard Foundation Award and Taste Canada Awardwinning 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 Posts 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 cooking eating and feeding. The pandemic gave her a new sense of urgency to share what she has learned. She says Life isnt 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 weve gotand that sometimes can seem like nothing but a whole lot of lemons. Well at least thats a start! We all know where to find the 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.
language: English
title: Kitchen Bliss: Musings on Food and Happiness
publisher: Simon & Schuster