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Home Cooking

Author : Laurie Colwin
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497673801
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Home Cooking written by Laurie Colwin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delectable mix of essays and recipes from the critically acclaimed writer: “As much memoir as cookbook and as much about eating as cooking” (The New York Times Book Review). In this delightful celebration of food, family, and friends, one of America’s most cherished kitchen companions shares her lifelong passion for cooking and entertaining. Interweaving essential tips and recipes with hilarious stories of meals both delectable and disastrous, Home Cooking is a masterwork of culinary memoir and an inspiration to novice cooks, expert chefs, and food lovers everywhere. From veal scallops sautéed on a hot plate in her studio apartment to home-baked bread that is both easy and delicious, Colwin imparts her hard-earned secrets with wit, empathy, and charm. She advocates for simple dishes made from fresh, organic ingredients, and counsels that even in the worst-case scenario, there is always an elegant solution: dining out. Highly personal and refreshingly down-to-earth, Laurie Colwin’s irresistible ode to domestic pleasures is a must-have for anyone who has ever savored the memory of a mouthwatering meal. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Laurie Colwin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Vietnamese Home Cooking

Author : Charles Phan
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 1607740532
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Vietnamese Home Cooking written by Charles Phan and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his eagerly awaited first cookbook, award-winning chef Charles Phan from San Francisco's Slanted Door restaurant introduces traditional Vietnamese cooking to home cooks by focusing on fundamental techniques and ingredients. When Charles Phan opened his now-legendary restaurant, The Slanted Door, in 1995, he introduced American diners to a new world of Vietnamese food: robustly flavored, subtly nuanced, authentic yet influenced by local ingredients, and, ultimately, entirely approachable. In this same spirit of tradition and innovation, Phan presents a landmark collection based on the premise that with an understanding of its central techniques and fundamental ingredients, Vietnamese home cooking can be as attainable and understandable as American, French, or Italian. With solid instruction and encouraging guidance, perfectly crispy imperial rolls, tender steamed dumplings, delicately flavored whole fish, and meaty lemongrass beef stew are all deliciously close at hand. Abundant photography detailing techniques and equipment, and vibrant shots taken on location in Vietnam, make for equal parts elucidation and inspiration. And with master recipes for stocks and sauces, a photographic guide to ingredients, and tips on choosing a wok and seasoning a clay pot, this definitive reference will finally secure Vietnamese food in the home cook’s repertoire. Infused with the author’s stories and experiences, from his early days as a refugee to his current culinary success, Vietnamese Home Cooking is a personal and accessible guide to real Vietnamese cuisine from one of its leading voices.

In Praise of Home Cooking

Author : Liana Krissoff
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1647009960
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Home Cooking written by Liana Krissoff and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning cookbook author Liana Krissoff presents an evocatively written ode to home cooking with all the guidance you need to perfect your own easy-to-master family recipes Trusted cookbook author Liana Krissoff is back. Previously, she showed you fresh, clever canning recipes; modern slow-cooker recipes; and easy vegetarian crowd-pleasers. Now, Krissoff brings you In Praise of Home Cooking—fit for anyone looking to perfect the staples, parents who want to whip up something tasty, curious kids who want to learn grandma’s secret recipes, and everyone who has gotten tired of those absurdly labor-intensive recipes. To Krissoff, developing resourceful habits and perfecting uncomplicated dishes––a pot of fluffy rice and one of creamy beans, a seared steak and a colorful salad––are integral to living with great pleasure, and so she shows us the way. Krissoff explores these simple but vital subjects—ranging from how to start a fire in a clearing in the woods to making a simple but celebration-worthy layer cake, and even remembering to make a mug of hot cocoa just because it’s the first cold, gray day of fall—reminding us that appreciating these moments is key to a life well-lived. In this cookbook infused with memoir, there are charming step-by-step illustrations that demystify key kitchen skills, vibrant food photographs, and short essays that reveal keen insights gleaned from a life as a recipe tester, cookbook author, and mom interspersed among the recipes. The more than 85 recipes in this book are Krissoff’s essentials, perfected for your ease. They represent a chronicle of how she learned to cook but also of ongoing efforts to help her daughter develop a level of competence with improvisatory home cooking. From kneading your own yeasted bread dough to refining your classic tahini dressing, Krissoff brings you all the foolproof recipes you always wished you had, while offering insight into the meaning and beauty behind these simple moments.

Cooking with the Muse

Author : Myra Kornfeld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936797684
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Cooking with the Muse written by Myra Kornfeld and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A cookbook and poetry anthology with 150 nutritious international recipes and a wide survey of classic and contemporary poetry about food and ingredients, along with literary essays, playful culinary and historical notes, explanatory drawings, and photographs."--Provided by publisher.

More Home Cooking

Author : Laurie Colwin
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060955317
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book More Home Cooking written by Laurie Colwin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-05-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Home Cooking, like its predecessor, Home Cooking, is an expression of Laurie Colwin's lifelong passion for cuisine. In this delightful mix of recipes, advice, and anecdotes, she writes about often overlooked food items such as beets, pears, black beans, and chutney. With down-to-earth charm and wit, Colwin also discusses the many pleasures and problems of cooking at home in essays such as "Desserts That Quiver," "Turkey Angst," and "Catering on One Dollar a Head." As informative as it is entertaining, More Home Cooking is a delicious treat for anyone who loves to spend time in the kitchen.

May Irwin's Home Cooking

Author : May Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book May Irwin's Home Cooking written by May Irwin and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dainty dishes for delicate digestions. Being a collection of recipes, some of which were pried away from reticent chefs and head waiters, and others that the author's friends have generously contributed, with several of her own."--Page after title page

Japanese Home Cooking

Author : Sonoko Sakai
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834842483
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Home Cooking written by Sonoko Sakai and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A beautifully photographed . . . introduction to Japanese cuisine.” —New York Times “A treasure trove for . . . Japanese recipes.” —Epicurious “Heartfelt, poetic.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Expand a home chef’s borders” with this “essential guide to Japanese home cooking” featuring 100+ recipes—for seasoned cooks and beginners who crave authentic Japanese food (Martha Stewart Living). Using high-quality, seasonal ingredients in simple preparations, Sonoko Sakai offers recipes with a gentle voice and a passion for authentic Japanese cooking. Beginning with the pantry, the flavors of this cuisine are explored alongside fundamental recipes, such as dashi and pickles, and traditional techniques, like making noodles and properly cooking rice. Use these building blocks to cook an abundance of everyday recipes with dishes like Grilled Onigiri (rice balls) and Japanese Chicken Curry. From there, the book expands into an exploration of dishes organized by breakfast; vegetables and grains; meat; fish; noodles, dumplings, and savory pancakes; and sweets and beverages. With classic dishes like Kenchin-jiru (Hearty Vegetable Soup with Sobagaki Buckwheat Dumplings), Temaki Zushi (Sushi Hand Rolls), and Oden (Vegetable, Seafood, and Meat Hot Pot) to more inventive dishes like Mochi Waffles with Tatsuta (Fried Chicken) and Maple Yuzu Kosho, First Garden Soba Salad with Lemon-White Miso Vinaigrette, and Amazake (Fermented Rice Drink) Ice Pops with Pickled Cherry Blossoms this is a rich guide to Japanese home cooking. Featuring stunning photographs by Rick Poon, the book also includes stories of food purveyors in California and Japan. This is a generous and authoritative book that will appeal to home cooks of all levels.

Please to the Table

Author : Anya Von Bremzen
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780894807534
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Please to the Table written by Anya Von Bremzen and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 350 recipes from all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union offer samples of the country's vast diversity--from the robust foods of the Baltic states, to the delicate pilafs of Azerbaijan

Home Cooking with Jean-Georges

Author : Jean-Georges Vongerichten
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 0307953289
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Home Cooking with Jean-Georges written by Jean-Georges Vongerichten and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join one of the world’s greatest chefs in his most personal book yet, as Jean-Georges Vongerichten shares his favorite casual recipes in Home Cooking with Jean-Georges. Though he helms a worldwide restaurant empire—with locations in New York, Las Vegas, London, Paris, and Shanghai—Jean-Georges counts his greatest joy in life as family first, then food. In Home Cooking with Jean-Georges, he brings readers into his weekend home, where he cooks simple, delicious dishes that leave him plenty of time to enjoy the company of friends and loved ones. A few years ago, Jean-Georges decided to give himself a gift that most of us take for granted: two-day weekends. He and his wife, Marja, and their family retreat to their country home in Waccabuc, New York. There, the renowned chef produces the masterful, fresh flavors for which he is known—but with little effort and few dishes to clean at the end. These quick, seasonal, Vongerichten-family favorites include: Crab Toasts with Sriracha Mayonnaise, Watermelon and Blue Cheese Salad, Herbed Sea Bass and Potatoes in Broth, Lamb Chops with Smoked Chile Glaze and Warm Fava Beans, Parmesan-Crusted Chicken, Fresh Corn Pudding Cake, Tarte Tatin, and Buttermilk Pancakes with Warm Berry Syrup. With 100 recipes and 100 color photographs—all taken at his country house—Home Cooking with Jean-Georges will inspire home cooks with fantastic accessible dishes to add to their repertoires.

Modern Mediterranean

Author : Melia Marden
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1613124678
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Modern Mediterranean written by Melia Marden and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A new favorite of mine. Modern Mediterranean is one of those cookbooks that makes you lust after everything within it” (The New Yorker). Melia Marden grew up in New York and Greece, where she enjoyed great seasonal food and a family that loved to entertain. As executive chef at New York City’s hotspot, The Smile, she develops an ever-changing seasonal menu rooted in Mediterranean flavor that has been raved about by Frank Bruni and Padma Lakshmi and is loved by celebrities. Now, in Marden’s first book, she presents 125 easy Mediterranean-inspired recipes for the home cook. From Minted Snap Peas to Watermelon Salad to Summer Steak Sliced Over Corn to Almond Cream with Honey, these are recipes calling for fresh ingredients and bold flavor but requiring no special techniques or equipment. Including 100 photos, this is a gorgeous, unique package that will charm and inspire home cooks everywhere. “A stylish, no-nonsense guide to creating some rather choice staples.” —Interview “Melia Marden gives us perfect food, conceived with true brilliance, executed with true love.” —Joan Didion, author of The White Album

Whole Food Cooking Every Day

Author : Amy Chaplin
Publisher : Artisan
ISBN 13 : 1579658024
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Whole Food Cooking Every Day written by Amy Chaplin and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There’s no shortage of vegetarian cookbooks out there, but it’s rare that I find one that inspires me page after page as much as Amy Chaplin’s Whole Food Cooking Every Day.” —Bon Appétit Eating whole foods can transform a diet, and mastering the art of cooking these foods can be easy with the proper techniques and strategies. In 20 chapters, Chaplin shares ingenious recipes incorporating the foods that are key to a healthy diet: seeds and nuts, fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and other plant-based foods. Chaplin offers her secrets for eating healthy every day: mastering some key recipes and reliable techniques and then varying the ingredients based on the occasion, the season, and what you’re craving. Once the reader learns one of Chaplin’s base recipes, whether for gluten-free muffins, millet porridge, or baked marinated tempeh, the ways to adapt and customize it are endless: change the fruit depending on the season, include nuts or seeds for extra protein, or even change the dressing or flavoring to keep a diet varied. Chaplin encourages readers to seek out local and organic ingredients, stock their pantries with nutrient-rich whole food ingredients, prep ahead of time, and, most important, cook at home.

At My Table

Author : Nigella Lawson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473548101
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book At My Table written by Nigella Lawson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** This January, let Nigella guide you into the new year with the ultimate in comfort cooking. Featuring all the inspiring, achievable, and delicious recipes from her BBC TV series - At My Table, plus many more - there's never been a better excuse to cook away the January blues. Nigella Lawson is a champion of the home cook and this book celebrates the food she loves to cook for friends and family. The recipes are warming, comforting, and inspirational, from new riffs on classic dishes - including Chicken Fricassée and Sticky Toffee Pudding - to adventures in a host of new dishes and ingredients, from Aubergine Fatteh to White Miso Hummus. AT MY TABLE includes dishes to inspire all cooks and eaters, from Hake with Bacon, Peas and Cider to Indian-Spiced Chicken and Potato Traybake and Chilli Mint Lamb Cutlets; plus a host of colourful vegetable dishes, like Eastern Mediterranean Chopped Salad and Carrots and Fennel with Harissa. No Nigella cookbook would be complete without sweet treats, and AT MY TABLE is no exception, with Emergency Brownies, White Chocolate Cheesecake and a Victoria Sponge with Cardamom, Marmalade and Crème Fraîche set to become family favourites. As Nigella writes, 'happiness is best shared' and the food in this book will be served and savoured at your own kitchen table just as it is at hers. 'I'd happily cook from this book every night' Bee Wilson 'Bursting with what will be instant Nigella classics - not to mention encouraging late-night visits to the fridge for leftovers. This is a book for those who see food as sheer pleasure' Good Housekeeping

In Praise of Veg

Author : Alice Zaslavsky
Publisher : Appetite by Random House
ISBN 13 : 0525612130
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Veg written by Alice Zaslavsky and published by Appetite by Random House. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alice Zaslavsky is a force of nature!" —Nigella Lawson The only book you’ll ever need on vegetables, with a kaleidoscope of 150+ colorful, innovative recipes for meals of all kinds. Food writer Alice Zaslavsky has written the definitive guide for everyone—from vegan to carnivore—who is ready to open their kitchen to a world of vegetable possibilities. More than 450 pages detail how to handle any vegetable you might pick up at the farmers' market or store—including a rainbow of more than 150 recipes that put vegetables at the center of the plate. Uniquely organized by color, this book is filled with countless flavor combinations, rule-of-thumb methods to buy, store, and cook vegetables, recipe shortcuts and tips, and wisdom from more than 50 of the world’s top chefs. In Praise of Veg will help beginners and avid cooks alike turn daily vegetables into easy and delicious meals. This is veg, but not as you know it . . . yet!

Open Kitchen

Author : Susan Spungen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525536671
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Open Kitchen written by Susan Spungen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple, stylish recipes for fearless entertaining from the renowned food stylist, New York Times contributor, and founding food editor of Martha Stewart Living. As a professional recipe developer, avid home cook, and frequent hostess, Susan Spungen is devoted to creating perfectly simple recipes for good food. In Open Kitchen, she arms readers with elegant, must-make meal ideas that are easy to share and enjoy with friends and family. An open kitchen, whether physical or spiritual, is a place to welcome company, to enjoy togetherness and the making of a meal. This cookbook is full of contemporary, stylish, and accessible dishes that will delight and impress with less effort. From simple starters such as Burrata with Pickled Cherries and centerpieces such as Rosy Harissa Chicken, to desserts such as Roasted Strawberry-Basil Sherbet, the dishes are seasonal classics with a twist, vegetable-forward and always appealing. Filled with practical tips and Susan's "get-ahead" cooking philosophy that ensures streamlined, stress-free preparation, this cookbook encourages readers to open their kitchens to new flavors, menus, and guests. Perfect for occasions that call for simple but elevated comfort food, whether it's a relaxed gathering or a weeknight dinner, Open Kitchen shows readers how to maximize results with minimal effort for deeply satisfying, a little bit surprising, and delicious meals. It is a cookbook you'll reach for again and again.

At Home on the Range

Author : Margaret Yardley Potter
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408832291
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book At Home on the Range written by Margaret Yardley Potter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, Elizabeth Gilbert unpacked some boxes of family books that had been sitting in her mother's attic for decades. Among the old, dusty hardbacks was a book called At Home on the Range, written by her great-grandmother, Margaret Yardley Potter. As Gilbert writes in her Foreword: 'I jumped up and dashed through the house to find my husband, so I could read parts of it to him: Listen to this! The humor! The insight! The sophistication! Then I followed him around the kitchen while he was making our dinner (lamb shanks), and I continued reading aloud as we ate... By the end of the night there were three of us sitting at that table. Gima had come to join us, and she was wonderful, and I was in love.' The cookbook was far ahead of its time. In it, Potter espouses the importance of farmer's markets and ethnic food (Italian, Jewish and German), derides preservatives and culinary shortcuts and generally celebrates a devotion to epicurean adventures. Potter takes car trips out to Pennsylvania Dutch country to eat pickled pork products, and to the eastern shore of Maryland, where she learns to catch and prepare eels so delicious, she says, they must be 'devoured in a silence almost devout'. Part scholar and part crusader for a more open food conversation than currently existed, it's not hard to see where Elizabeth Gilbert inherited both her love of food and her warm, infectious prose. At Home on the Range is a fascinating, humorous and useful cookbook from the past that is essential for the present day.

A Lot on Her Plate

Author : Rosie Birkett
Publisher : Hardie Grant
ISBN 13 : 9781742709147
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Lot on Her Plate written by Rosie Birkett and published by Hardie Grant. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From food obsessive Rosie Birkett comes a collection of imaginative, delicious and approachable recipes that draw on the culinary vibrancy of seasonal, fresh produce and simple, store-cupboard ingredients. There's something to suit every taste, pocket and occasion in this vivid and beautifully photographed cookbook. Rosie shares healthy, wholesome recipes using nutrient-packed ingredients - try her delicious kale and coriander pancakes with avocado butter and roasted tomato for a great start to your day, or her shredded sprout salad with green apple, blue cheese and toasted almonds for a summer evening's dinner. She offers indulgent recipes for times when you want to enjoy rich, satisfying meals - tuck into her French dip roast beef sandwich, the melting Mexican pork tacos or mushroom ragu with truffled polenta, and polish it all off with a scoop of peanut butter ice cream or slice of blueberry, basil and almond pie. Rosie knows how to make simple, seasonal ingredients sing - A Lot On Her Plate encourages home cooks to widen their repertoire and be more creative with their favorite ingredients. Covering everything from small plates, sides, breakfast and brunch, to desserts and cocktails, this a contemporary food writer's daily inspiration for delicious, easy food that can be prepared in no time at all.

Dinner at Home

Author : JeanMarie Brownson
Publisher : Agate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1572847646
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Dinner at Home written by JeanMarie Brownson and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There’s nothing dumbed down here, only honest cooking: simple stuff for everyday meals and gloriously rich, complex dishes for special occasions.” —Rick Bayless, James Beard Award-winning chef 2016 IACP Cookbook Award winner in Children, Youth & Family category JeanMarie Brownson has long been a beloved chef and food writer, from her time as the Chicago Tribune’s test kitchen director and associate food editor to her ongoing professional partnership with the iconic Rick Bayless (Frontera Grill, Topolobampo, Xoco). Since 2007, Brownson has chronicled her life of cooking in a series of Chicago Tribune columns, the best of which have been hand-picked to form her newest cookbook, Dinner at Home: 140 Recipes to Enjoy with Family and Friends. This book features inventive and easy-to-make recipe ideas, along with gorgeous full-color photography. Organized by course, Dinner at Home also devotes chapters to holiday dinners, party snacks, rubs and sauces, and “breakfast for dinner.” Readers will enjoy the seasonal menus, such as those for special occasions (Anniversary Dinner, Ultimate Father’s Day, and Sunday Brunch) as well as themed meals (Manhattan Cocktail Party, Saturday Night Beer Tasting, and Wish We Were in Ireland Supper). For Brownson, cooking for others ranks as one of life’s greatest pleasures, and her passion for creating trustworthy, approachable recipes is clear throughout Dinner at Home. This book is a must-have for home cooks who love the time spent gathered around the table with friends, family, and delicious meals. “This book shares flavorful recipes that are backed by years of solid testing and include straightforward nutrition notes. I’ll refer to this cookbook for years to come.” —Antonia Allegra, founder of The Symposium for Professional Food Writers