Here’s a wonderful book all about entertaining.
The Entertaining Encyclopedia: Essential Tips for Hosting the Perfect Party is a terrific book that not only includes party tips from an expert party planner and caterer, but also gives you lots of party theme ideas and recipes to go with each.
Even if you only pull it out a [...]
How many of us remember the family picnic?
I have many fond memories of packing up a cold supper and going with my family, including aunts, uncles and cousins, for a family picnic by the lake. Sometimes we would barbecue hot dogs and hamburgers to go with the salads and cool desserts my mother had packed. [...]
It’s summer and the berries are plentiful!
Berries are available all year round in most areas, but there is nothing quite like easy dessert recipes made from summer fresh berries.
You can certainly make any of these recipes any time of the year, but they will be especially appreciated as cool summer treats.
Summer Fruit Bowl
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Alton Browns Gear For Your Kitchen
Dedicated viewers of Alton Brown’s acclaimed Food Network show Good Eats know of his penchant for using unusual equipment. He has smoked a salmon in a cardboard box, roasted prime rib in a flowerpot, and used a C-clamp as a nutcracker. Brown isn’t interested in novelty, he’s just devoted to [...]
Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly P S
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material
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5 Stars A Must [...]
Heat An Amateurs Adventures as Kitchen Slave Line Cook Pasta Maker and Apprentice to a Dante Quoting Butcher in Tuscany Vintage
A highly acclaimed writer and editor, Bill Buford left his job at The New Yorker for a most unlikely destination: the kitchen at Babbo, the revolutionary Italian restaurant created [...]
Jan Karons Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader Recipes from Mitford Cooks Favorite Tales from Mitford Books Mitford
Millions of Mitford fans around the world will agree—it’s easy to put on a pound or two reading a Mitford novel. Scene after scene of the bestselling series’ colorful characters enjoying tantalizing dishes can immediately start [...]
The Americas Test Kitchen Family Baking Book
Featuring more than 700 kitchen-tested recipes, 800 step-by-step photos, opinionated product ratings, and at-a-glance tutorials that guarantee success every time you bake.
A companion to the bestselling America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook (with more than 550,000 copies sold), this comprehensive cookbook delivers the foolproof recipes, step-by-step instructions, and troubleshooting guides [...]
The Best 30 Minute Recipe
300 Fast and Flavorful Recipes from America’s Most Trusted Test Kitchen
Tired of quick recipes that aren’t really quick or don’t taste very good? While some cookbooks promise 30-minute meals, America’s Test Kitchen delivers. The Best 30-Minute Recipe is packed with more than 300 great-tasting recipes, along with time-saving techniques that will [...]
Paula Deens Kitchen Wisdom and Recipe Journal
Hey there, y’all!
My favorite recipes came direct from my momma and grandmommas. I just love goin’ through all the recipe cards they passed on to me and readin’ their handwritten notes; it makes me remember our good times in the kitchen, gathered round the table. Sometimes, though, I need [...]
