What's a Hostess to Do?

What's a Hostess to Do?
Author: Susan Spungen
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2013-05-15
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1579655440
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In What's a Hostess to Do?, entertaining expert Susan Spungen explains everything you need to know to host a party effortlessly and with elegance. Susan shows the hostess how to make it look easy--whether the occasion is an informal brunch, a sit-down dinner, a buffet for a crowd, or an impromptu birthday celebration. It's all arranged in 313 easy-to-digest entries that take readers through every aspect of entertaining. The tips are time-saving ("Ten Great Assembled Dessets"), money-saving ("In Praise of Cheap Wine"), energy-saving ("Ten Jobs to Delegate"), and face-saving ("How to Handle Uninvited Guests"), plus there are 121 recipes to make entertaining easier than ever berfore. With helpful illustrations and full-color photographs, What's a Hostess to Do? is a stylish and instructive guide filled with expert advice from a party-throwing pro.

Maida Heatter's Book of Great Desserts

Maida Heatter's Book of Great Desserts
Author: Heatter, Maida
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2013-02-05
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1449442374
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DIV Here are nearly 300 recipes, each of them worked out to fool-proof protection, including Raspberry-Strawberry Bavarian, creamy Black-and-White Cheesecake, Walnut Fudge Pie a la Mode, and many more. Recipes range from cakes to cookies, pastries, crepes, blintzes, popovers, cream puffs, puff pastry, pies, cheesecakes, ice creams, and souffles. /div

The Deliciously Conscious Cookbook

The Deliciously Conscious Cookbook
Author: Belinda Connolly
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2014-05-26
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1781803188
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The Deliciously Conscious Cookbook is bursting with tempting treats that anyone can enjoy, no matter what their dietary requirements. It features 100 imaginative vegetarian recipes—many of them gluten free, dairy free, lower sugar or vegan—including Belinda Connolly’s signature savoury Butternut, Berry & Goat’s Cheesecake and her piquant Thai Cauliflower, Coconut & Lime Soup. Packed with easy-to-follow recipes for light lunches, simple suppers and moments of pure indulgence, it also offers a wealth of ways to adapt each dish for a variety of needs. Belinda is famous for using vegetables and pulses in innovative ways to create delectable sweet treats, such as her melt-in-the-mouth Adzuki Bean Fudge Brownies and the zesty Tropical Parsnip & Polenta Cake. Full of originality, this beautiful book offers health-conscious cooks inventive new ways to celebrate their love of food.

Cooking Lessons

Cooking Lessons
Author: Sherrie A. Inness
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2001-08-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0742575357
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Meatloaf, fried chicken, Jell-O, cake—because foods are so very common, we rarely think about them much in depth. The authors of Cooking Lessons however, believe that food is deserving of our critical scrutiny and that such analysis yields many important lessons about American society and its values. This book explores the relationship between food and gender. Contributors draw from diverse sources, both contemporary and historical, and look at women from various cultural backgrounds, including Hispanic, traditional southern White, and African American. Each chapter focuses on a certain food, teasing out its cultural meanings and showing its effect on women's identity and lives. For example, food has often offered women a traditional way to gain power and influence in their households and larger communities. For women without access to other forms of creative expression, preparing a superior cake or batch of fried chicken was a traditional way to display their talent in an acceptable venue. On the other hand, foods and the stereotypes attached to them have also been used to keep women (and men, too) from different races, ethnicities, and social classes in their place.

The New Basics Cookbook

The New Basics Cookbook
Author: Sheila Lukins
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Total Pages: 864
Release: 1989-01-10
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0761164375
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It's the 1.8-million-copy bestselling cookbook that's become a modern-day classic. Beginning cooks will learn how to boil an egg. Experienced cooks will discover new ingredients and inspired approaches to familiar ones. Encyclopedic in scope, rich with recipes and techniques, and just plain fascinating to read, The New Basics Cookbook is the indispensable kitchen reference for all home cooks. This is a basic cookbook that reflects today's kitchen, today's pantry, today's taste expectations. A whimsically illustrated 875-recipe labor of love, The New Basics features a light, fresh, vibrantly flavored style of American cooking that incorporates the best of new ingredients and cuisines from around the world. Over 30 chapters include Fresh Beginnings; Pasta, Pizza, and Risotto; Soups; Salads; every kind of Vegetable; Seafood; The Chicken and the Egg; Grilling from Ribs to Surprise Paella; Grains; Beef; Lamb, Pork; Game; The Cheese Course, and Not Your Mother's Meatloaf. Not to mention 150 Desserts! Plus, tips, lore, menu ideas, at-a-glance charts, trade secrets, The Wine Dictionary, a Glossary of Cooking Terms, The Panic-Proof Kitchen, and much more. Main Selection of the Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service and the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books.