Urbane, informative, and highly entertaining essays by Vogue food columnist Steingarten, about bread, choucroute, barbecue, fat farms, the wonders of red wine, and French fries cooked in horse fat--among other things. A winner of a 1998 award from the Association of Culinary Professionals. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
The doctor's back, and now she's curing dinner woes! Anne Byrn, the award-winning food writer and author of "The Cake Mix Doctor "and "Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor "does for dinner what she did for dessert-shows how to take common, convenient supermarket ingredients and turn them into meals that taste like they're made from scratch. Making ...
Homey, familiar American recipes for all seasons and many occasions from Oprah Winfrey's private chef. Recipes include coleslaw, spaghetti and meatballs, and mulled cider, as well as more adventurous ones, but all emphasize the delights of sitting around the table at home with family and friends. Winner of a 2002 James Beard Award.
This anthology includes food writers like Ruth Reichl and Jeffrey Steingarten as well as "lay" writers who just happen to love food, which include Jeffrey Eugenides, Mort Rosenblum, and Malcolm Gladwell.
Known for his successful cookbooks and cooking showsQnot to mention British charm and disheveled good looksQJamie Oliver has become a household name. His latest cookbook, "Jamie's Dinners," provides 100 new and simple options for delicious family meals, enhanced by full-color photography. Features include Jamie's top ten favorite family meals, ...
A treasury of reminiscences about White House social events during the Kennedy administration, edited by Mrs. Kennedy's social secretary and chief of staff. Menus, guest lists, photographs, and personal recollections of guests and staff re-create the brightest moments of one of the brightest societies in modern America.
In Dream Dinners, Stephanie Allen and Tina Kuna offer 100 recipes for nutritious, family-sized, assemble-and-freeze dinners based on their successful franchise business.
This collection of Fisher's first five food-related books chronicle her life in Europe throughout the 1930s and 1940s, covering not only the delights of French cooking but the deprivations and substitutions of the war years. It includes AN ALPHABET FOR GOURMETS, THE GASTRONOMICAL ME, CONSIDER THE OYSTER, HOW TO COOK A WOLF, and SERVE IT FORTH. ...
A charming, beautifully illustrated food lover's companion that takes readers from a Twelfth Night cake in January to a champagne dinner on New Year's Eve, "Life Is Meals" offers an entry for each day of the year. Sophisticated, practical, and opinionated, the book is filled with culinary wisdom, history, trivia, and recipes. 84 color ...
Spanning over half a million years, this describes the world history of food and the way in which food has influenced the whole course of human development.
There's bad news these days for Calvin Trillin fans--he's about to skip town and he's taking Alice and the girls with him. The good news--you're going too.
Leanne Ely doesn' t actually cook dinner for your family. It just feels that way. Certified nutritionist Leanne Ely loves delicious food and is dedicated to enticing today' s busy families back to the dinner table with home cooking that cannot be beat. In Saving Dinner the Low-Carb Way, she integrates low-carb requirements into her me lange of ...
Ben Schott's meticulously researched guide to the far reaches of food and drink lore includes information on the Japanese tea ceremony, Alcoholics Anonymous, English pub signs, slang words for drunkards, and mouse-eating in the Roman Empire.
Mark Bittman, whose New York Times column "The Minimalist" revolutionized quick meal preparation for busy cooks, provides a thorough guide to fast and fabulous cooking. Recipes include Monkfish with Meat Sauce, Steamed Chicken Breasts with Ginger-Scallion Sauce, Vichyssoise with Garlic, Risotto-Style Pasta, Korean Beef Wrapped in Lettuce Leaves, ...
Informed by John Pawson's minimalist ethos, this book is about making life easier, more enjoyable and more beautiful. It is first and foremost a cookery book, with food that has been carefully selected to be simple, comfortable and delicious, allowing each individual flavour to be enjoyed. Eating is a central focus of our lives and of our homes, ...
Replete with authentic Siclian recipes culled directly from the out of the way island stoves and cafe kitchens that cook them, "Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons "presents a travelogue for seasoned travelers, and lovers of all things Italian. At the age of twenty-six Matthew Fort first visited the island of Sicily. He and his brother arrived in 1973 ...
Full of practical tips on simple, healthy meal planning, "Saving Dinner" is the ideal solution for today's busy parents who would love to have their family sitting around the dinner table once again--sharing stories along with a nutritious meal.
Poised to become the next major entertaining and style celebrity, Colin Cowie, featured in People magazine as the wedding planner to the stars, just signed on with In Style magazine as a features editor and is publishing this, his first book--a full-color treasury of ideas for making parties, both large and small, spectacular. 300 color photos.
Food historian Margaret Visser takes a meal of corn on the cob with butter and salt, roast chicken with rice, salad, and ice cream, and wittily deconstructs it, providing a wealth of information about the history, anthropology, and philosophy of one of life's great pleasures. When it was first published in 1986, MUCH DEPENDS ON DINNER was named a ...
Ludwig Bemelmans on one of his favorite subjects: la bonne table. His comments on the art of dining well, his memories of the great hotels of Europe and America (along with their memorable dishes and eccentric chefs), his own brief career in the restaurant business, and his delightful illustrations add up to a feast of reading from one of the ...
Sara Moulton, Gourmet magazine executive editor and host of the Food Network's SARA'S SECRETS, provides helpful hints, encouragement, and plenty of recipes for the working masses who have limited time to put a nice dinner on the table when they get home. Along with the recipes that require short prep and cooking time, she also provides some more ...
In the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed us that the most glorious food in an American city was not to be found at the pretentious rooftop restaurant he called La Maison de la Casa House, Continental Cuisine. With three hilarious books, he established himself as "our funniest food writer" and, in Craig Claiborne's phrase, "the Walt Whitman of ...
How to give an absolutely stunning late-night party, with inspirations for food, decor, and timing. Includes 300 color photographs of great party venues.
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