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Fans of Food Network star Paula Deen enjoy her unpretentious Southern-gal persona as much as her easy, what's-not-to-like recipes. As a writer of four other cookbooks, including The Lady & Sons Just Desserts, restaurant owner, and purveyor of her own product line, she's also something of an entrepreneur. In Paul Deen Celebrates! she offers 170-plus recipes arranged by menus for traditional holidays and other, sometimes whimsical celebrations like Elvis's Birthday and Movie-Watching Pizza Party in Bed. The recipes, which are often Southern-rich, range from the more traditional, such as Shrimp Etouffé, Muffuletta Sandwiches, and Macaroni Salad, to the innovative, including Collard Green Wantons, Grilled Chicken Pita, and Scallop and Bacon Pizza. Her sweets include the likes of Old Fashioned Banana Pudding, Gooey Toffee Butter Cake and Margarita Mousse. Offered also are decorating tips, and "Paula's Pearls of Wisdom" like "treasure today's moment's because they will tomorrow's memories."
Deen's dishes couldn't be more approachable and will doubtlessly inspire many holiday menus. Readers should know, however, that she regularly calls for convenience products like cake mixes and canned soups, whose use (by now something of an American tradition in itself) can do little to make homemade food taste as good as it otherwise might. Paula Deen Celebrates! should, however, excite Deen's many fans, who, along with the attractive formulas, receive lots of "back-story" on the author's own celebrations, life, and mostly good times. --Arthur Boehm
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Beloved Food Network personality, restaurateur, and author Paula Deen loves a party, and in her latest book, Paula Deen Celebrates!, Paula shares with fans old and new how she celebrates a year's worth of holidays and special occasions. Now anyone can share in the down-home celebrations Paula, her husband, Michael, their kids, and extended family enjoy at their beautiful home in Savannah, Georgia.
What better way to start off the New Year than with a New Year's Eve Brunch with friends -- at midnight! This colorful celebration includes Crab and Spinach Casserole and Baked Tomatoes, and finishes with a quintessentially southern Hummingbird Cake and Irish Coffee. Welcome St. Patrick's Day, Savannah style, with Lamb Stew and Green Grits Pie. The centerpiece of an Easter dinner is a Peanut Butter-Glazed Ham, accompanied by Spinach-Swiss Casserole, Squash Boats, and flaky Butterhorns, with a bonus recipe for Ham Salad that makes eating leftovers a treat. Looking for a reason to party, south-of-the-border style? Try Paula's Cinco de Mayo Fiesta menu, with Macho Nachos and a cool and creamy Margarita Mousse. Paula honors the memory of her mother, and all the other women who have blessed her life, with a Mother's Day Tea of dainty sandwiches and irresistible cookies served on her best china, and fathers get their due with a Father's Day Boating Picnic. The Fourth of July is the perfect occasion for an Outdoor Grill Party and Low-Country Boil, and if what you want is a quiet evening at home, pop a movie in the DVD player and chow down on your choice of Paula's savory and sweet pizzas. Gather the family to watch some football and savor Jamie's Cheeseburger Pies, and give family and friends the gift of a sweet treat at the holidays with Paula's Icebox Fruitcake or Peppermint Bark. Her Christmas feast starts with Cranberry Holiday Brie and stars an impressive Standing Rib Roast, with Twice-Baked Potato Casserole. The show-stopping dessert is Paula's butter-laden Coconut Pound Cake glazed with coconut syrup and covered with icing and toasted coconut!
Paula brings you into her home, her kitchen, and her heart with family stories and photographs. This time, her husband, Michael, sons Jamie and Bobby, and brother, Bubba, chime in to share their memories, too. Decorating and serving ideas will inspire you to use what you have to carry through a theme to make the most informal meal special. And Paula shares her most private thoughts in a special feature -- Paula's Pearls of Wisdom -- which you'll find with each menu.
Paula Deen Celebrates! is Paula at her very southern best. Join her in making and sharing her best dishes for the best times of your life.
Customer Reviews:
Party Time!.......2007-07-05
I loved this book by Paula Deen. It was given to me as a gift and I've used it for many parties. I especially love how the menu is all laid out for you. It's so easy to mix and match the ideas or use the entire menu for a party. It's written in true Paula style and any true fan would love this book!
Cookbook.......2007-06-27
If you like Paula's TV show - then you'll love going through all of these wonderful recipes!
Best recipes! .......2007-06-09
Paula Deens recipes are perfect for Sunday family dinners and for any parties throughout the year. They are also great if you just want great homemade comfort food!
GOOD COOKBOOK.......2007-05-29
Good cookbook! Paula shares some of her fancier recipes in this book. Great for southern entertaining! Perfect recipes that your guest are SURE to LOVE!! I'm telling ya'll they will LOVE these eats! Enjoy!
Maxine from Georgia.......2007-05-26
Paula Deen Celebrates!: Best Dishes and Best Wishes for the Best Times of Your Life
Hey Y'all,
I just love this book! I am from Northern Georgia, but we do things the same way, up here, as Paula does, down in South Georgia!
My friends and family tell me that I'm just like her??? Hahaha! We are just from the same roots! The only difference in mine and her cooking, is that we don't have fresh seafood! Oh well, Publix has a great seafood department! Wish we could get some fresh!
I just wish that she would put a recipe for cornbread and buttermilk and green onions on the side?? I know most Southerners loves this!
I love Paula, and will buy every book that she writes! She's a REAL Southern Belle!!!
Love and Kisses and Best Wishes for Paula's Dishes,
Maxine0251
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Rachel Ray puts the fun back into entertaining with this exciting collection of recipes, all designed to feed a crowd or smaller gathering in 30 minutes or less.
Customer Reviews:
An Early Cross Between Rachael Ray 2, 4, 6, 8 and Rachael Ray's Open House Cookbook.......2007-03-07
Some will call this book Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals 3. I beg to differ. In fact, Get Togethers is an earlier cross between two other superb Rachael Ray books, the recent 2, 4, 6, 8 (published in 2006) and the older Open House Cookbook (originally published in 1999 and reprinted in 2005).
What are the main differences? In the Open House Cookbook, Rachael is mostly looking at parties, holiday gatherings, and larger dinners. Since this is an early book, it leans heavily to Italian cuisine and spiced up versions of traditional American fare. In 2, 4, 6, 8, the perspective is from a couple who occasionally add 2, 4, or 6 people for some meals or don't mind having a leftover meal.
Get Togethers is also aimed at social occasions, but it has a focus more on the traditional sizes of serving 4-8. There are a few special dinners for two. Reflecting Rachael from 2003, this book is less based on Italian menus and provides more adventure in cuisines and seasonings.
If you want to throw a big party, Open House Cookbook provides more choices. If you want to do something special for two, 2, 4, 6, 8 has more choices.
I found the breakfast and brunch ranges in Get Togethers to be a limited, often built around frittatas and scrambled eggs. By comparison, the lunches are terrific for their range, imagination, and eye appeal. She also provides some excellent ways to provide snacks for cocktail parties and watching sports on television. Another section takes major holidays and provides fast ways to serve eight.
In terms of 30-minute thinking, I'm sure Rachael can do all of these menus in that amount of time. I'm also pretty sure I couldn't do any of the menus for 8 or more in 30 minutes. But I'm sure I could be done in less than an hour.
One of the best parts of the book comes in the beginning where she provides a list of prepared items you can use straight from the store and describes a number of ways to present your meal to dress up the occasion.
The book had a number of excellent menus and recipes that I recommend including:
Brunch alcoholic drinks; Southern comforts brunch; Tex-Mex brunch; Backyard bistro luncheon; Havana luncheon; Big burger lunch; High tea in low country; A dip in the Mediterranean; Snack attack party; Lite bites party; Seductive supper; Baja blowout; Seven samurai plus two; Meat and potatoes a deux; TV dinner for two; Express lane dinner date; Three cheers for chili; Couch coaches' nachos; Tailgate with gusto; Big wrap tailgate party; Halloween; Thanksgiving; Italian Thanksgiving; Everyday Thanksgiving; Happy Hanukkah; UK for a Queen; Cooking for 10 in 30; Night light; Positano dinner; Road to Morocco; Cooking for 10 in 30 Italian style; Cooking for 8 in 30 French style; and German heirloom.
The small, but elegant, number of photographs display lovely ways to present the recipes.
If you cannot afford to buy all three cookbooks, you'll probably find that Get Togethers will fit more of your entertaining needs than either of the others.
Yumm........Yummmm......Yummmmmm...........2007-01-27
More delicious RR recipes in 30 minutes or less. These are presented in menu form and are delish! I have made several and people rave about the food. Most of it is pretty good for you too! No shake and bake here, folks, this is the real deal. If you want to feel like you are eating out everyday,make these recipes. They are not difficult or weird....just REALLY TASTY!
Get Togethers: Rachel Ray 30-Minute Meals.......2007-01-09
Book was a repurchase. When mother was visiting she fell in love with the book. Easy reading and good food. My wife gave her our copy. I had to replace it! Excellent book with great recipes for quick prepare real meals.
Fast, easy and delicious!.......2006-01-14
"Get Togethers" contain some wonderfully delicious recipes!
One just cannot go wrong with Rachael Ray. Talented as can be, she makes Cooking fun! I never bought recipe books while raising my children, too many ingredients (so I thought) & too much work with them running around. NOT SO! The Mother/Father of today can zip up a great meal fast with the children running around with Rachaels recipe's. Try it:-) betcha like it! Jeannie!
Rachel multi-tasks!.......2005-10-20
More fine, quick recipes from one of my favorite cooks. Rachel knows how to reduce a recipe to its basics without compromising the taste. On the day it arrived, we found a recipe that had to be shared -- the Chili Casserole. I look forward to trying most of the others. I go back to Rachel Ray's cookbooks time and again -- many of her recipes have become standards in my cooking. But she can sure multi-task! I rarely do one up in thirty minutes until I have done it several times.
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Tiffany Taste is a good coffee table book!.......2002-01-29
I especially enjoyed the beautiful photographs! If you get nothing out of this book in the way of text (limited), you will enjoy the wonderful place settings for each of the tables. It is truly an inspiring book for would-be decorators and party hosts! Isabow
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Authorship .......2006-08-13
Wenzel's Menu Maker was written by George L. Wenzel, and William J. Wenzel, the authors son, helped extensively with the
afformentioned revised edition.
The book is an excellent resource, but is well overdo for an update, which William J. has confided to me that he is more than willing to do, if the publisher ever expresses such an interest.
(by way of disclosure, George L. is my grandfather & William J.
is my father)
Excellent Information Reference/Recipes.......2003-08-15
This is a very informative resource for serious or recreational cooks. It helps you to match foods with suggested menu ideas. It is written in a clear manner and makes exactly the amount it says it will, yet, the amount can be easily reduced. I purchased a very nice used book, and am pleased with the individual that I dealt with.
Excellent reference text.......2001-08-10
An excellent reference text for restaurant owners, menu planners, restaurant consultants, or those who just need a couple thousand new recipes. I have found it to be an indespensible resource.
I highly recommend this book. The only caveat is that it is well over a thousand pages, so you'll need to make room in your kitchen for it!
Actual Author.......1996-08-02
This book was written by George Wenzel Sr., not William
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The timeless and collectible classic on entertaining-at last back in print!
Dorothy Draper (1889-1969), like her contemporaries Diana Vreeland and Elsie de Wolfe, became an icon of stylish living through her interior decorating and many books.
Originally published in 1941, Entertaining Is Fun! is one of Draper's most delightful creations, hailed in the original flap copy of the book as "neither a cookbook nor a book of etiquette, but a vivacious and inspiring book on home entertaining." With its charming retro package, this book teaches you how to host the most fabulous dinner parties, holiday meals, and weddings, and also makes a great gift!
Customer Reviews:
Entertaining is Fun!: How to Be a Popular Hostess.......2007-06-08
What a wonderful book. I enjoy looking at it again and again. Great ideas from years ago that can still be used today!
Entertaining is Fun!.......2006-11-02
Dorothy Draper was known for her sense of style in both decorating and entertaining. Although this book was written in the mid-1900s the entertaining suggestions are timeless. The book itself is fun with its typical 1950s illustrations and speech. This is a book that is fun to use to while away an afternoon.
Charming!.......2005-11-09
This book is wonderful. I just love Draper's tone and conversational way of writing. She offers ideas for all budgets and lifestyles. Charmingly retro, with plenty of good advice for today's hostesses. I could not put it down.
THE housewarming gift for gay men.......2005-05-01
Not as important or famous as Draper's "Decorating is Fun," but her 1941 "Entertaining" book is still amusing, deserving a spot on your coffee table next to an old 1940s Emily Post Etiquette book (when is somone gonna get wise and issue reprints of THOSE?).
Among the highlights is a full list of what every well-appointed home cannot do without, just in case an unexpected guest drops by ("a charming tea set," "a good hall mirror," and "a big metal bell with a lovely tone, to call people in from the garden for games or meals..."), and how to throw a dinner party--1940s style.
Fascinating book. In no time you'll be providing crisp stationery, fresh flowers, 700-thread-count sheets and a luggage stand for your weekend guests...and really, aren't those the "family values" that matter most?
A fun & inspirational read.......2004-11-08
If you're looking for some new ideas, as well as a peek into entertaining during the 1940's, you'll find a lot to enjoy in this reprint of Dorothy Draper's charming guide to entertaining. With an emphasis on simple, unpretentious planning, I think it was quite ahead of its time. This might make a good hostess gift!
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Bon Appetit does it again--a great resource for entertaining.......2002-01-22
With my busy schedule, I dont have the luxury to test new dishes before I entertain. I know I can always count on recipes from Bon Appetit cookbooks and this one is no exception. This book is not only a cookbook but a menu planner and resource guide. Last weekend I had 10 people over and served the following from the book: spicy shrimp in snow peas, deviled eggs with smoked salmon and green onions, spinach bacon spirals, and layered enchilada casserole. All got rave reviews. In the fall I used dishes from the barbecue menu. This book gives menus and planning tips for a number of entertaining ideas--from Saturday potluck to help yourself brunch to drinks and eats.
I highly recommend this book--get it anyway you can. But you can't have mine.....
Entertaining can be easy!.......2000-05-27
This cookbook really does make entertaining easy. Not only does it offer delicious recipes that we've come to expect from Bon Appetit but it organizes them in such a way that your menu and time easily managed.
There are three sections which are themed around a particular type of event: Occasions, Instant Entertaining, and Get-Togethers. Within each section, there are menus for specific functions (Celebration Dinner, Elegant Shower, Romantic Dinner, Kid's Birthday Party, Big Anniversary, Potluck Housewarming Party, etc . . .)
The feature I like the most is the timeline for each function's menus. For example, for the Kid's Birthday Party, send out invitations, shop for nonperishable food items and paper goods, decorations, and candles three weeks ahead. Two weeks ahead, bake and freeze cake layers for birthday cake, etc . . . .
One other item to mention is there are pictures of every recipe (something I find very useful).
I recommend this book wholeheartedly. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
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Susan Wylers indispensable classic is back in printnow better than ever, with more than a dozen new menus, over 70 new recipes, and a wealth of updated strategies The original edition of Cooking for a Crowd won great praise all around: Florence Fabricant named it one of the New York Times best books of the season. Perla Meyers, author of How to Peel a Peach, advised, Keep this book as a reference whenever you are entertaining. And Rose Levy Berenbaum, author of The Cake Bible, declared, She puts together the components of a dinner with the passion, perfection, and ease of a master painter. The game plans . . . enable any cook to impress without risk. This new edition builds on the premise of the originalthat many a home cook can manage the occasional dinner party for 4 to 6, but when it comes to entertaining a crowd of 10 or more, the logistics become exponentially more complicated. Wylers ingeniously user-friendly combination of creative menus, do-ahead game plans, and crowd-pleasing recipes makes it possible for any home cook to entertain on a large scale. Wyler has expanded the volume to include over 225 recipes and 35 menus for a variety of sizes and occasionssuch as Tuscan Lunch for 12 to 16, Black and Orange Halloween Party for 24, even a Wedding Supper for 50. A perfect balance of inspiring and instructive, Cooking for a Crowd is a must-have for all home cooks who want to bring large groups of family and friends together at the table.
Customer Reviews:
Ok, glad I didn't spend more.......2007-10-10
I bought this book thinking it would help with my frequent hosting of large crowds, but it didn't help at all. It might help IF I needed obscure, expensive ingredients and gourmet friends. I needed something way more practical.
Great Menus for Entertaining!.......2007-09-27
This book has some really spectacular recipes and great entertaining menus and ideas; I can see many family and friends get-togethers or other parties in my future and I'll certainly use this book. However, I generally plan menus and cook for a crowd in a church setting -- families, students, elderly members, and occasionally, homeless people who are in our inner city neighborhood. Our ability to "stay in business" means we can't afford to buy the types of ingredients many of these recipes require or cook foods that might not have the kind of appeal that personally invited guests would appreciate. More importantly, a lot of the recipes probably take way too much time for volunteers with limited interest and/or ability to prepare. So while it probably won't be much help to me in my volunteer position, I believe I'll use it for personal entertainment purposes and that's why I'm going to add it to my cook book library!
My New Favorite Cookbook.......2007-06-11
I bought this cookbook because I was preparing to organize the food at a camping retreat for 30, but it turned out to be one of the best everyday cookbooks I own. The cookbook is arranged by type of event, from a small family dinner to a large wedding supper. Most of the recipes are for 20 or less people, although a few are written for 30 or more. The strength of the cookbook is in the emphasis on technique and on pre-preparation, where possible. If a dish can be made a day to a month or more before serving and refrigerated or frozen, the author tells you. The other strength is in outdoor cooking and barbecueing, which was the subject of the author, Susan Wyler's, first cookbook, Tailgate Parties. These recipes are downright inspired. The recipe for Texas Barbecue Brisket is the best I have tasted, because it is smoked outside for only two hours, then baked at low temperature in the oven. This results in a much moister brisket than smoking overnight, which is the typical method in other cookbooks. Wyler has also perfected Pulled Pork, by boiling the pork shoulder on the stove for several hours and smoking it at the finish for flavor - the moistest, most wonderful you have tasted! Her recipes for cornbread (there are two) are both delicious and moist, and they both freeze well. The Coleslaw recipe is deliciouis without a drop of mayonaise and is ideal for a picnic.
This is a great cookbook for anyone who entertains (even if you entertain casually outside) or who cooks for a large family or for church or charity events. We all need to occasionally make a salad for 20 or a meal for 10. There is a great section describing how to cook a traditional Thanksgiving meal, as well as another which describes the cooking of a holiday ham. There is even a nice section on alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, with recipes and recommended amounts for a crowd. When I was preparing to cook for the retreat I mentioned earlier, I bought 5 cookbooks aimed at cooking for large groups, but I never use the other 4. This is a great cookbook, and everytime I cook from it and take the dish to a potluck or party, I get rave reviews. I would highly recommend it.
Excellent Resource.......2007-03-17
Great menu ideas, good recipes.
This cookbook is a gem! A lot of quantity-cooking cookbooks have recipes for things like slop and canned-cream-of-whatever-soup special. This book has simple, classy recipes along with strategies for serving a crowd of people.
All of the recipes I have tried from this book have been great. Once you see her proportions and suggested quantities, it is also easy to scale other favorite recipes to serve a larger group of people.
This contains recipes and menus for different-sized crowds and for different occasions (from elegent dinners to picnics).
Excellent resource. Highly recommended.
GREAT COOKING IDEAS FOR PARTIES.......2005-11-21
This is a very practical book, fool of wonderful recipes. Very well written, simple to follow. I've only had a chance to try a couple so far, but with great success. Black and Orange Halloween Party for 24 was simple enough to do, and an instant hit. The Chocolate Chili with Beef, Pork, and Black Beans was to die for. I can't wait to try other dishes from this book. Highly recommend this cookbook.
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Does The Silver Palate Cookbook ring a bell? Or The New Basics Cookbook? That's Sheila Lukins, with partner Julee Rosso, back in the days of making a major splash in the food world. What had been an upscale take-out shop became a brand, a series of books, and a line of specialty foods. Lukins went on to become food editor of Parade magazine. And she never slowed down on the cookbooks, producing on her own All Around the World Cookbook and USA Cookbook. Now her legion of fans can welcome Celebrate! Like all the others, it's a big book: 350 recipes, 200 color photographs, 480 pages.
"I'm in the mood to celebrate," Lukins crows. "It's the kind of joyous mood that makes me happy to call friends and family and invite them over for good food, good conversation, and good cheer! It's the kind of mood that makes needing a reason to celebrate...." Should you find yourself banging around for a reason to celebrate, relax: Lukins provides 43 of them. She hits all the major holidays--Christmas, Mother's Day, Passover, Superbowl. And then she witches up come celebrations you probably wouldn't think up on your own--Celebrate India, for example, or Celebrate Fresh Blueberry Breakfast. This is a book of menus and clustered recipes, which is handy if you don't want to think through an entire meal. Nothing's too demanding, flavor remains the bellwhether, ingredients will be in easy reach. Piece of cake. Piece of Devil's Food Cake, for that matter. You'll find that along with Deviled Chicken Wings, Red Hot Short Ribs of Beef, Jicama Slaw, and Tangerine Sorbet when it comes time to Celebrate an Old-Fashioned Halloween.
Sheila Lukins has always been one to point the way. Sure, celebrating with food and family and friends is obvious. But Lukins moves it all up to the next level, with bold splashes of color. If you make celebration a part of your everyday life, she's saying, you'll surround yourself with everything in life that's worth celebrating. Good food is certainly part of that living equation. --Schuyler Ingle
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Time to celebrate! With one purpose only-to bring family and friends together-Sheila Lukins presents Celebrate!, a full-color extravaganza of a book with 46 festive menus, 350 foolproof, with-a-twist recipes in the Silver Palate style, 200 color photographs, and throughout, the passion that's made her one of America's most creative cooks and best-loved food writers.
Here are menus to re-energize traditional holidays-for Thanksgiving serve Maple Ginger Turkey with a piquant Cornbread Chorizo Stuffing. Menus that will turn impromptu gatherings into yearly events-a hearty selection of bowl foods for Super Bowl Sunday, a red-white-and-blue menu for a Memorial Day barbecue, an easy weekday Cozy Dinner for Two. And menus that will inspire whole new reasons to throw a party-The Big Raise (featuring a Blushing Lobster Cocktail), When Spring Has Sprung, The First Summer Tomatoes, a Celebrate Morocco Dinner with Moorish Carrot Soup, Lamb Tagine, Orange Flower Sorbet. Celebrate! is a blueprint for joy, making any time the right time to celebrate and showing just how to pull it off.
Customer Reviews:
Love this book!.......2007-04-19
I love Sheila Lukins style of writing......it's engaging, entertaining and informative. This book is a joy to read cover to cover. Wonderful range of recipes.
Fresh and Fun! .......2007-03-17
I love this book! I love to celebrate holidays and milestones with close friends, loving family and delicious food! I truly enjoy preparing food for others. This book is going to go a long way in helping me feed and celebrate with those I love! I can't wait to try entire menus, complete with music and beverage/wine recommendations! The menus in the book are fresh and bright and easy enough for a novice cook like me. The pages come alive with incredible pictures of both food and celebration! This is the first cook book I own that I can't put down ... I want to read it, not just duplicate a recipe from it! I have a feeling I'll be celebrating holidays and occasions I never did before, just so I can make these scrumptous menus! I can't wait to Celebrate!
EVERY THING A PARTY PLANNING BOOK SHOULD BE!.......2005-05-20
In one word...perfect! This book is great, every recipe I have made from it has been fabulous. (Try the coconut cream pie :)) And more importantly all the foods kind of meld together so each dish is distinct but not so diffrent as to not blend. This book has become my party reference! The parties are creative and go into details like flowers, recommended wines and music. And there are so many parties, from summer pool parties, a kentucky derby party, and big promotions to the standards like Christmas, and Easter! Buy this book you will NOT be disappointed!!!
Create a special occasion, just so you can use this cookbook.......2005-01-14
This cookbook covers a nifty range of special occasions--much better than that in any other cookbook I've seen! It includes traditional holidays, non-traditional holidays, and things that aren't holidays at all (the "congratulations on a new job" menu, the "Saturday night with friends" menu, the "Springtime bridal shower" menu, a menu for a big family reunion, a birthday bash, a housewarming, a cozy dinner for two, and more).
Many of the dishes are traditional, or have been around for many years, but Ms. Lukins brings her own flair to them. She never gets too outrageous, but she's also never boring. I think she walks the perfect middle ground to ensure that this cookbook will appeal to as many people as possible, which is a tough thing to do!
What's most impressive to me, however, is how uniformly delicious and painless these recipes are. Every single one we've made has come out absolutely perfectly, without a hitch or confusion. Every single one has been completely delicious. The haroseth was fantastic, with its subtle blend of honey and a little bit of spicing. The Irish soda bread rolls beautifully contrasted the tang of buttermilk with the sweetness of raisins. The barbecue sauce is, quite literally, the best I've had, and the sesame noodles have a surprisingly complex and delightful flavor--the kind where with every bite you taste something new. The raspberry sauce, which we made to go with a cheesecake from another cookbook, was heavenly.
This is an outstanding cookbook, and I can't wait for an excuse to make more out of it. We're already planning which special occasion we'll take advantage of next!
Reason to Throw a Party.......2004-04-09
This is simply creative, well done and inspirational. From the unique concept to the exciting layout to the fab recipes, this is one to have and use and celebrate and enjoy.
The author is a cookbook all-star, having done The Silver Palate series and New Basics and several of her own. She branches out now with this one which provides a whole thematic culinary event including recipes, music, wine suggestions, serving and decorating ideas. All centered around great food.
There are 43 themed events with 350 recipes all showing color photos organized into two main sections: A Year of Celebrations, with a dozen of the more classic events e.g. New Year, Seder, Mother's Day, etc., and the second: Celebrating Our Lives, bridal shower, graduation, cuisine & culture outings, e.g. India, morocco; and ingredient feasts such as a blueberry breakfast. There are also adequate sources, bibliography, conversion tables and a nice index. The servings are hefty, sometimes for 24, 8, 2, 16. Buffets, pool party, sit down dining room, beach, etc. venues well covered as well.
While so many could be singled out to inspire you to add this to your collection, let me tempt you with two samplings: A Toast To New Year for 8, with a Celebration Coktail ( Grand Marniew and champagne and more), Sparkling Crab Salad, Frisee Folie with Tangerine Vinaigrette, Mahogany Squabs, Fancy New Year's Pilaf, Carrot-Ginger Whip, Beet and Apple Whip, Frozen Lime Souffle, Chocolate Truffles. All of this decked out in an ambience of Old Painted Hookahs holding apricot-hued roses, with votive candles amid floating white orchids, set upon table of paisly fabriic, with pink linen napkins set off with gold wire-ribbon ties. Suggested music: Rimsky--Korsakov's Scheherazade or John Coltrane's My Favorite Things.
Anytime Sunday Brunch for 8 with Leek Frittata, Roasted Tomatoes and Onions, Rustic Chicken Salad, Tomatoes a la Tapenade, Blackberry Sorbet, and Rich Pecan Squares.
As she suggests, one doesn't have to do all the recipes, and mix and matching of them is allowable and encouraged. She has a good idea too, that of trying a more difficult recipe ahead of time as a dish to gain confidence before preparing as part of a bigger spread.
This is lush, well thought out and executed and a marvelous resource for entertaining, whether one follows it to a tee, some of it, and use for inspiration to dream up your own. This is wo well done and has something everyone can find exactly what you're into. Explore, dine and wine, bon appetit.
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Food for Fifty (12th Edition)
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American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide
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Hospitals and long-term care facilities in every state and many foreign countries use the Simplified Diet Manual to assist them in planning nutritious, appealing, and cost-effective meals that are modified to meet the dietary requirements with special health needs. While reflecting the dynamic nature of the field of nutrition, the Tenth Edition of the Simplified Diet Manual retains its basic purpose: providing easy-to-understand, fundamental nutrition guidelines for normal and therapeutic diets. The concise, user-friendly format of this useful resource helps dietitians and foodservice managers succeed in their vital role in maintaining nutritional health and well-being of clients in long-term care facilities, hospitals, and outpatient service centers. Changes to the Tenth Edition of the Simplified Diet Manual are many and include: bull; bull;Revision of the Guidelines for Diet Planning based on Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 and USDArsquo;s MyPyramid bull;Update on Meeting Nutritional Needs of Older People, referencing the American Dietetic Associationrsquo;s position: Liberalization of the Diet Prescription for Older Adults bull;Inclusion of National Dysphagia Diet tables (copy; 2002, American Dietetic Association) bull;Addition of the Bariatric/Gastric Bypass Diet bull;Addition of the Modified Renal Diet bull;Addition of Food Allergies and Intolerances bull;Revision of Exchange Lists for Meal Planning (copy; 2003, American Dietetic Association) bull;Inclusion of study guide questions at the end of each chapter for training foodservice employees in health care facilities that are served by a registered dietitian or dietary consultant.
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Great music and great food make an exhilarating duet. Taking her cues from the world's most beloved operas, food diva Francine Segan has composed a cycle of menus that are sure to have your family and friends shouting, “Brava! Bravissima!”
Each chapter of Opera Lover's Cookbook presents a culinary performance—an elegant five-course dinner, a brunch, a dessert party— scored to a particular operatic motif or keyed to the work of a renowned composer. Operas set in Spain—Carmen, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Don Giovanni—are the exotic backdrop for a tapas fiesta. The far-flung locales of Puccini's La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, and Turandot inspire an eclectic international buffet. A rustic Italian dinner is orchestrated to the strains of Verdi's Traviata. And Gilbert and Sullivan, of course, provide the overture for an English-style pub supper.
Sumptuously illustrated with photographs of featured dishes and lavish productions mounted by New York's Metropolitan Opera Company, Opera Lover's Cookbook also dispenses advice on home entertaining and on setting the scene with stunning table decor. Its more than 125 recipes include appetizers and hors d'oeuvres; soup, salad, fish, and pasta courses; main dishes; sweets; and thematic aperitif, cocktail, and after-dinner drinks.
Customer Reviews:
Natural Synergy Between Opera and Food Realized in Sumptuously Presented Cookbook.......2006-11-10
The connection between opera and food is such a natural that food historian Francine Segan has a field day with the lavish format of her eminently entertaining cookbook. Each chapter reflects a specific operatic work or theme (e.g., Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess", German opera) or the overall work of a legendary composer like Puccini and Mozart. From that basis, Segan offers the appropriate menu, whether it is a casual brunch, a formal five-course dinner, or in the case of Mozart, a collection of delectable sweets like Figaro's Orange Cake or Linzertorte Music Bars. The tastiest-looking recipes include the tapas inspired by Bizet's "Carmen", including Serrano Ham with Drunken Melon and Melty Manchego with Spicy-Sweet Tomato Jam, and the down-home, "Porgy and Bess"-inspired dishes like Maple Buttermilk Biscuits and Butternut Squash "Hash" with Southern Comfort.
There are over 125 recipes included, all meticulously chosen for their compatibility with the music, and Segan offers such relevant facts as how Mozart's Don Giovanni offers tapas-like nibbles throughout Act I as a means to divert attention from his philandering. In true Food Network fashion, she also provides entertainment and presentation tips to complete the picture. Moreover, to fortify the opera connection, she enlisted world-renowned soprano Renée Fleming to write the foreword and baritone Gerald Finley to act as a wine sommelier for some of the recipes. There is also a nice collection of archived photographs from past Metropolitan Opera performances to see the specific inspirations for the food, as well as loads of trivia and historical facts about the operas themselves. Mark Thomas provides the stunning culinary photographs. This book is obviously most ideal for opera lovers who aspire to become the next Martha Stewart.
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