The author's sixth book is a collection of 32 sophisticated yet easy menus featuring soup as a main course. Delicious recipes for both hot- and cold-weather soups are accompanied by unusual appetizers, tasty breads, and luscious desserts.

Presents 125 recipes--reflecting several cultures--for eighteen themed occasions, including a wedding picnic, Thanksgiving dinner, and a treasure hunt/family cookout, and pairs a wine, beer, or cocktail with each recipe.

This new cookbook offers 90 easy-to-follow weekend entertaining and make-ahead recipes, chosen and detailed by the nationally known food authority Mark Bittman. "How to Cook Everything: Easy Weekend Cooking" is one of the latest editions in the new series based on the bestselling, award-winning cookbook "How To Cook Everything." Bittmans easygoing and expert guidance makes it easy to shop for, prepare, and cook every recipe, from Cinnamon Rolls to...

From award-winning chef Peter Berley: mouthwatering seasonal vegetarian menus that can be created in under an hour. Sophisticated, home-cooked vegetarian meals without the fuss. Is that too much to ask? Absolutely not. True to his roots as a restaurant chef, cooking teacher, and family man, award-winning vegetarian chef Peter Berley has a passion for meals that taste incredible, salute the seasons, and are easy to prepare in under an hour. In Fresh...

"From beloved writer and cook Amy Thielen comes a year of inventive recipes and twenty menus for the "let's do it at my house" set-and those who aspire to it. In her much-anticipated follow-up to The New Midwestern Table, Amy writes, "no one will ever care about the food as much as you and I do." Company will have you rethinking the way you entertain, throwing dinner parties that are less formal, more frequent, and as fun for the cook as for the guests....

Features get-together that are divided into four categories - Brunches & Lunches, Cocktail Parties, Casual Suppers, and Formal Dinners. This book features 100 recipes for delicious dishes and drinks, a resource guide, helpful websites and full-color photographs by William Geddes capturing the festive spirit of home entertaining.

Edna Lewis is renowned as one of the greatest American chefs and as an African-American woman who almost single handedly revived a forgotten world of refined Southern cooking. Lewis won many industry awards and was often referred to as "the Grande Dame of Southern Cooking" and the "South's answer to Julia Child."