The country kitchen

Della T. Lutes

Cooking and food

Print length: 264 pagesLittle, Brown, 1937

Description

The Country Kitchen combines Della T. Lutes’s memoir with a cookbook, placing personal recollection alongside culinary material. Its hybrid form invites readers to encounter food not only as instruction, but also as part of a remembered life. The book therefore works on two levels: as an account shaped by Lutes’s experience and as a collection concerned with cooking. This blend of life writing and practical food writing earned The Country Kitchen a National Book Award for Nonfiction, making its unusual memoir-cookbook structure central to both its identity and its recognition.

Reading profile

About this profile

Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).

Writing: How much attention the sentences and language require.
Ideas: How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
Structure: How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
Background knowledge: Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
Emotional intensity: Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.

Writing style

Conversational · Descriptive · Direct

Pace

Variable

Tone

Intimate · Reflective · Warm

Structure

Braided · Reference

Focus

Information · Relationships · Voice

Emotional intensity

2 / 5

Reading complexity

1–5 · higher means more demanding

Writing: 2 / 5
Ideas: 2 / 5
Structure: 3 / 5
Background knowledge: 1 / 5

Themes

BelongingCommunityFamilyIdentityMemory

Book details

For the print edition listed above.

Publisher: Little, Brown
Language: English

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