A review by megamoodles
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg

3.0

I'm a nerd and love reading cookbooks, so I was very excited to read a cookbook that read similar to a memoir. The stories behind the recipes were full of life and entertaining. Food is definitely central to Molly's life and it comes across in her writing and the selection of recipes. I've already made one recipe, but it needed to be tweaked before I even started baking, so beware that could be an issue. Some recipes really aren't recipes in my opinion. For instance, she writes about her parents taking her to Paris when she was ten and how her and her father would go to La Boule Miche to eat pain au chocolat. I was getting all excited because I can't make croissants to save my life. It ends up that the "recipe" to go along with this vignette is simply putting a piece of dark chocolate inside a piece of French bread.....I guess I'll keep searching for my croissant recipe.