Comfort Food

I'm reading Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin. I fall into this book as easily as I fall into an unmade bed. Last night I got home later than usual from working at the bookstore, and if I had been reading anything else, I would have skipped it and gone straight to sleep. But since I was reading this, I stayed awake for the extra 15 minutes. Easy. Colwin's a writer who loves friends and food and cooking for friends at home. In this book and its follow-up, More Home Cooking, Colwin talks a little bit about traveling or cooking away from home, but even that feels cozy and safe, not challenging. Her friendly style of writing is more like talking with a neighbor over a fence than being shown up by the best cook in the neighborhood at a block party. I came away from last night's reading with an easy recipe for making real bread at home that I think I just might try.