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Laurie Colwin's Perfect Summer Pie

RF Jurjevics, the child of writer Laurie Colwin, shares some of their mother's Thanksgiving recipes.

When I first read the recipe for slow-baked rice pudding in the great food writer Laurie Colwin’s More Home Cooking, with her description of how the lemon peel dissolves into the pudding, I stuck my thumb between the pages and went straight to the kitchen. If you like rice pudding, this is the ultimate comfort food, scented with lemon, and not very sweet, so perfectly acceptable for breakfast.

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The author, who died in 1992, has ten reissues coming out this year, and she's exactly the happy, cozy writer we need in a time of strife and quarantine.

The beloved food and fiction writer, who died too young in 1992, wrote about happiness but with more irony and ambiguity than you might think. All 10 of Colwin’s books are being rereleased this year, which makes now the perfect time to revisit them.

Read everything that Laurie Colwin has ever written. Miss her.

Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, Home Cooking is Laurie Colwin's manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. From the humble hot-plate of her one-room apartment to the crowded kitchens of bustling parties, Colwin regales us with tales of meals gone both magnificently well and disastrously wrong. Never before published in the UK, this is hilarious, personal and full of Colwin's hard-won expertise. Home Cooking will speak to the…

A 'jewel of romantic comedy' (New York Times) from the late great author, adored by Nigella Lawson, Dolly Alderton, Katherine Heiny and Caroline O'Donoghue