Whether you organize an intimate holiday party or an elegant feast, you'll find wonderful recipes and presentation ideas in "Winning Styles Cookbook." It features over a hundred recipes from twenty-one James Beard Foundation award-winning chefs. This was published by Feeding Frenzy Inc. It is beautifully illustrated in full color with step-by-step instructions for each recipe along with beverage recommendations. There's a short profile with photos of each chef.
"Toscana Mia-the Heart and Soul of Tuscan Cooking" by Umberto Menghi is much more than a cookbook. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, it's a travel book and cookbook all in one. For this volume, the author, who is a world class chef and restaurateur-traveled throughout his native Tuscany with photographer Paolo Bonsignori. He provides the engrossing background for each recipe along with wine suggestions. The recipes include both metric and American measurements.
Party food need not be rich and heavy to taste good. Chef Michel Stroot proves that in his book, "The Golden Door Cooks Light & Easy" from Gibbs Smith, Publisher. He's been creating innovative recipes using garden-fresh ingredients at the Golden Door, America's premier spa, for over thirty years. This book features unforgettable, easy to prepare dishes that are suitable for parties as well as family meals. Through the color photos and the author's commentary, readers are given a tour of the spa and its luxurious facilities.
When you need desserts in a hurry for holiday parties, refrigerated cookie dough comes to the rescue. Camilla V. Saulsbury has written "Cookie Dough Delights," published by Cumberland House. It features over 150 quick and easy recipes for cookies, fruit crumbles, cupcakes, tarts, and other desserts. She also includes tips on decorating cookies. For each recipe, she provides commentary and cooking tips. The introduction gives all the basics on baking cookies.
Each year Food & Wine publishes its annual cookbook. "Food & Wine-an Entire Year of Recipes 2004" from the American Express Publishing Corporation is lushly illustrated in full color. Along with the superb recipes, it features kitchen tips, questions and answers, a wine glossary, and wine suggestions. For specials occasions, you'll want to check out the menu index in the appendix. Use the color coding system to locate recipes that are either fast or healthy, or ones suitable for advance preparation.
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