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Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food Hardcover – December 4, 2018

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In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls.

From her Italian American childhood through singlehood, raising and feeding a growing family, divorce, and a new marriage to food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Growing up, she tasted love in her grandmother’s tomato sauce and dreamed of her mother’s special-occasion Fancy Lady Sandwiches. Later, the kitchen became the heart of Hood’s own home. She cooked pork roast to warm her first apartment, used two cups of dried basil for her first attempt at making pesto, taught her children how to make their favorite potatoes, found hope in her daughter’s omelet after a divorce, and fell in love again―with both her husband and his foolproof chicken stock.

Hood tracks her lifelong journey in the kitchen with twenty-seven heartfelt essays, each accompanied by a recipe (or a few). In “Carbonara Quest,” searching for the perfect spaghetti helped her cope with lonely nights as a flight attendant. In the award-winning essay “The Golden Silver Palate,” she recounts the history of her fail-safe dinner party recipe for Chicken Marbella―and how it did fail her when she was falling in love. Hood’s simple, comforting recipes also include her mother’s famous meatballs, hearty Italian Beef Stew, classic Indiana Fried Chicken, the perfect grilled cheese, and a deliciously summery peach pie.

With Hood’s signature humor and tenderness, Kitchen Yarns spills tales of loss and starting from scratch, family love and feasts with friends, and how the perfect meal is one that tastes like home.

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December 4, 2018
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5.9 x 1.1 x 8.6 inches
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"Ann Hood is a gifted storyteller... [Kitchen Yarns is] perfect holiday season fare, but be forewarned: You'll want to keep both kitchen and Kleenex close at hand."
― People

"These tales of ingredients, recipes, and meals will lift your spirits."
― Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post

"Written in a series of deliciously digestible essays, the wistful and wonderful Kitchen Yarns is a feast for the heart, mind, and senses."
― USA Today

"In this cozy read, Hood shares recipes that shaped her...and the poignant life lessons about loss, love, and friendship she learned in the kitchen."
― Real Simple

"Hood connects food with memory in delicious ways."
― BBC

"Eminently readable, Kitchen Yarns, Ann Hood’s tender, witty, and funny voyage through a life of food, reminds us that the visceral taste memories of our past are essential benchmarks of our life, and that the stories of a family are always best felt and expressed through those dishes."
― Jacques Pépin, world-renowned chef and author of Heart & Soul in the Kitchen

"Moving...Hood's sharp essays emphasize food as emotional nourishment, bringing family and friends together―both to celebrate the joys and heal the wounds of life."
― Publishers Weekly

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"Hood is larger than life, living, loving, and grieving on an operatic scale."
– New York Times Book Review

"Ann Hood is a captivating storyteller."
– Lily King

"I can think of no better guide than Ann Hood, whose generosity of spirit, courage, humor, gumption, and grace are a powerful reminder that language and story have the capacity to heal, to instruct, and to change our lives."
– Dani Shapiro

"Ann Hood’s writing is an unusual combination of the delicate and the fierce."
– Meg Wolitzer

"Hood never for a paragraph or a page loses control over the story that suffuses her, the sound of the words, the impact of images."
– Philadelphia Inquirer

"Hood’s words…pull you along, like a knitting pattern, one mesmerizing, settling click at a time, stitch by stitch, row by row, until you find yourself with something solid and real."
– Oregonian

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (December 4, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393249506
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393249507
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.9 x 1.1 x 8.6 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #797,582 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,577 in Culinary Biographies & Memoirs
- #9,801 in Women's Biographies
- #28,291 in Memoirs (Books)

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Ann Hood is the author of over a dozen novels, including the bestsellers The Knitting Circle, The Obituary Writer, The Book That Matters Most, and Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine; and several memoirs, including the bestsellers Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love and Food and Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, which was named one of the top ten books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. Her most recent book, Fly Girl, a memoir about her years as a TWA flight attendant, will be published in May 2022 by WW Norton.

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Lee Rush

More of a love letter to memories than a cookbook- and more pleasurable

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2022

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I am a newcomer to Hood’s literary prowess, but I assure you this will not be the last work of hers that I eagerly devour. To be honest, I didn’t know this was a cookbook, and I wouldn’t technically categorize it as such. More a love letter to her past, and the food that resurrect them.

Her ability to weave the sights, sounds, and smells of her past were, quite honestly, intoxicating to me. I was also pleasantly surprised to find that her roots are in Rhode Island, the state I have called home for almost 40 years. I luxuriated in her descriptions of the state as it was before my arrival, and smiled at the family she described, so similar to my husband’s family that lives, even still, in Little Rhody.

I finished this book with a certain understanding of the importance of these recipes to the core of who Hood is, and some sound tasty enough to even try myself. I enjoy that others enjoy cooking, and found this book a delight from cover to scrumptious cover.

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Karen Rushen

A thoroughly enjoyable read

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2020

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I loved this book. I could be biased, being about the same age and background as the author (New England Italian American on my mom's side, growing up in the 1960s) and in many ways could have written a very similar book in terms of the recipes and even many of the memories. But what I thought made this book so special was the way Hood took the REAL recipes of our childhood and joined them with what truly amounts to so many stories of the real heroism in the face of loss and sadness, hard work and sacrifice, that were the lives of so many of the anonymous women and men who were my generation's moms and dads, and grandmas and grandpas, aunts and uncles and family members. I loved that each chapter could have been a "stand alone" story, because I will go back and read them again. And I thank her too for having the courage to compile so many of those unglamorous, simple and HONEST recipes of our era that often were belittled or dismissed in later decades, so that I can make, enjoy and remember those recipes and their sweet memories once again thanks to her research. Thank you so much for writing this thoroughly enjoyable read.

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Stacy B

Literary comfort food

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2022

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I can’t say enough about this book. I read many foodie books and this is by far one of my favorites. It’s like a hug from your Mom when you’re sad. It made me cry, laugh, and reflect.

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dottie brunette

Good book, poor title

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2021

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Thoroughly enjoyed this book and the author's storytelling method. The recipes all sound excellent and some will be tried.
Hate the book title. Love the part about yarns, but as a whole the title is misleading and in no way reflects the primarily east coast life.

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J. Moore

A nourishing Read

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2019

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Whether the recipe you need is for a joyful gathering or for a special few—you’ll want to reach for your copy of Ann Hood’s Kitchen Yarns. I love this book, filled not only with a rich array of recipes, but also with sometimes funny and always heart-warming stories. Speaking of which, the recipe for “GoGo’s Sauce” is a variation on my mother’s spaghetti (we didn’t call it pasta) sauce, and it’s validating to see a recipe that references Hunt’s tomato paste and Hunt’s chopped tomatoes. (Of course, as the author tells us, substituting San Marzano tomatoes works, too.)
Interestingly, just before the ingredients for GoGo’s sauce are listed, there’s a story about vodka-infused cherry tomatoes, making for a bloody Mary to go, of sorts. It’s a charming anecdote, including references to a trip to Scotland and being surrounded with family and friends. The book is full of such anecdotes. Within the pages of Kitchen Yarns, readers are invited into the author’s world of joy and sometimes of great sadness, but where there can be no gathering of family and friends without good food prepared, served, and shared with abiding love.

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Prepare to Be Hungry

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2019

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This book was suggested to me by my daughter who wanted us to read a book together; we have both completed it but have not yet met to discuss. I suspect that we will both be reflecting on our own childhood memories of recipes and cooking experiences and perhaps attitudes about food in families.
Overall, I enjoyed reading Ann Hood's collection of stories about her experiences with cooking and her favorite recipes. The book can serve as a resource for exploring how cooking styles can vary in families and society as time moves along, and as a comparison among differences in families based on culture and social/economic status.
I found that there was a tendency for some repetition in some of the stories. I also experienced some confusion with certain discussions, such as ones about Ms. Hood's children. I'd encourage readers to continue to read on as most of the questions that pop up become clear as the chapters unfold.

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A most heartfelt, lovely memoir

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2018

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Wrapping up the year with one of Ann Hood’s brilliant, witty, and thoughtful books is such a gift. I adored every minute of KITCHEN YARNS: NOTES ON LIFE, LOVE, AND FOOD. Per her usual style, she envelops her readers in the warmth of her love of living, both the joy and the hard lessons, and she brings you a front seat at her kitchen table along to enjoy her Mama Rose’s meatballs, which seem to be on the stovetop at all times, childhood summer dinners straight from the garden where you can practically taste the freshness, her perfect young foolproof dinner party fare, and more.

Hood has a way of sharing her life with you as if you were dear friends and you are left with tender memories, sage advice, the love of family, and of course recipes, and seeing the world from a new perspective – from a woman who has experienced a great deal and has much to share. What a pleasant, enjoyable, heartfelt read. More Ann Hood, please.

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Julie A. Jackson

A wonderful honest memoir with the side benefit of great recipes

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2020

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I so enjoyed walking down memory lane with Ann Hood and her life and times as a child growing up in a huge Italian family, as a flight attendant and a mother, friend and writer. Her memoir is honest and filled with the soul-searching that accompanies a life well-lived. The way she ties recipes to specific times in her life is a wonderful association. She inspired me to try some new recipes like pasta carbonara that has now become a staple for me. However, more than that, she made me recall my own 1970s childhood and memories of road trips and picnics with my family. I loved this book so much that I gave it to several family members for Christmas.

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R H TAYLOR

What I expected

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 21, 2020

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Great book

Wen. Starchild

a wonderful book

Reviewed in Canada on May 26, 2019

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all good allround read with excellent recipies.

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