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Molly Wizenberg is a freelance food writer and the creator of the award-winning blog Orangette. She is a regular contributor to Bon AppÉtit, and her writing has been featured on NPR.org and PBS.org and has been praised in The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and The Seattle Times. Wizenberg has degrees in human biology, French, and cultural anthropology, but in 2005, she left the world of academia to write full-time.

In a Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from my kitchen table, Molly Wizenberg, The Founder of the acclaimed blog orangette, Recounts a life with the kitchen at its center.

The Washington Post - Nora Krug

…a book that combines memoir—vignettes about her childhood in 1970s Oklahoma City, her love life and trips to Paris—with anecdote-inspired recipes…This format is itself a tried-and-true recipe. Still, Wizenberg's take is fresh, and the book is especially touching when she writes about her father…

Acknowledgments v

Introduction 1

How to Use the Recipes in This Book 7

A Place to Start 11

The Baker in the Family 17

In Need of Calming 23

The Whole Messy Decade 29

An Uncalculating Science 35

Better with Chocolate 41

The Dark Horse 47

A Brood of Seven 51

La Boule Miche 59

A Strange Sort of Coming of Age 65

The Hardball Stage 71

A Personal Chronology in Christmas Cookies 77

The Right Answer to Everything 85

Quite that Magnificent 91

What France Would Taste Like 97

The Best of All Possible Worlds 103

High Points 111

Heaven 119

9:00 A.M. Sunday 127

Italian Grotto Eggs 135

The Mottling 141

Whatever You Love, You Are 153

Summer of Change 161

Pretty Perfect 171

Promise to Share 177

With Cream on Top 183

Happiness 189

Baby Steps 195

Like Wildflowers 207

Delicious in Its Way 213

Rough Going 219

Bonus Points 223

Herbivores Only 229

Special Game 235

The Diamonds 241

Sugarhouse 249

The Change Thing 253

Bonne Femme 259

So Much Better 267

A Big Deal 275

Freeze Frame 281

Pickling Plant 287

So Easy 293

I Have Learned Not to Worry 299

Winning Hearts and Minds 309

Recipe Index 315