Cooking for Crowds for Dummies
Author: Curt Simmons
Over 100 recipes, plus time-saving planning tips and sanity-saving suggestions
Serve terrific food confidently and calmly, and wow your crowd!
Panicky about cooking for a casual church dinner, a posh graduation party, or a holiday feast for 50? With terrific recipes plus tips for everything from planning menus to preparation and presentation, you can serve a hungry crowd without getting all steamed up about it. You'll quickly grasp the basics you need to know to cook like an experienced pro.
Discover how to
• Serve great dishes, from appetizers through desserts
• Determine food quantities when cooking for groups
• Handle food safely
• Add ambience with easy decorations
Table of Contents:
| Ch. 1 | A crown by any other name | 9 |
| Ch. 2 | Planning your menu | 17 |
| Ch. 3 | Estimating food quantities, serving dishes, and more | 39 |
| Ch. 4 | Creating tasty appetizers | 53 |
| Ch. 5 | Main dishes everyone will love | 69 |
| Ch. 6 | Delicious side dishes | 95 |
| Ch. 7 | Satisfying slurps : soups and stews | 109 |
| Ch. 8 | Stirring it up : punches and drinks | 125 |
| Ch. 9 | Decadent desserts | 137 |
| Ch. 10 | Special dishes for summer get-togethers | 165 |
| Ch. 11 | Special dishes for holidays | 183 |
| Ch. 12 | Special dishes for weddings | 201 |
| Ch. 13 | Getting ready for the event | 217 |
| Ch. 14 | Getting ready on the day of the event | 231 |
| Ch. 15 | Ten ways to avoid common food preparation problems | 249 |
| Ch. 16 | More than ten decorating tips for crowds | 253 |
| Ch. 17 | Ten ways to keep from pulling out your hair | 265 |
| Ch. 18 | More than ten things you need to know about food safety | 269 |
Travels with Alice
Author: Calvin Trillin
This delightful book collects Calvin Trillin's accounts of his trips to Europe with his wife, Alice, and their two daughters. In Taormina, Sicily, they cheerfully disagree with Mrs. Tweedie's 1904 assertion that the beautiful town "is being spoilt," and skip the Grand Tour in favor of swimming holes, table soccer, and taureaux piscine. In Paris, they spend a day on the Champs-lyses comparing Freetime's "le Hitburger" to McDonald's Big Mac. In Spain, Trillin wonders whether he will run out of Spanish "the way someone might run out of flour or eggs." Filled with Trillin's characteristic humor, Travels with Alice is the perfect book for summer travelers.
Newsday
Utterly delightful . . . the sophisticated traveler masquerading as innocent abroad.
New York Times Book Review
One of the classiest and funniest writers . . . Tantalizing and hilarious.
Lloyd Rose
A book full of delights! His work is a moveable feast. -- The Village Voice
The Christian Science Monitor
Trillin's skillful blend of travel, food and humor is an entertaining excursion.
Publishers Weekly
Syndicated humor columnist, author ( If You Can't Say Something Nice ) and New Yorker writer Trillin publicly refers to his wife Alice as the principessa when they travel: ``I found it improved the service in hotels.'' With Alice and daughters Abigail and Sarah, he here roams through France, Italy, Spain and the Caribbean, his selective eye and broad interests picking up on whatever intrigues him. In southern France, for instance, he pursues the vanishing arcade game of babyfoot and develops an obsession with the provincial event called taureaux piscine , a form of bullfighting requiring a small plastic swimming pool. In a mildly curmudgeonly tone, Trillin reveals a skeptic's attitude toward the French language and manners, though he's willing to forgive much of a country that gave the world the French fry. Food is never far from his thoughts, whether it leads him to farmers' markets in Provence, to sampling ethnic specialties on a stroll through lower Manhattan, or taste-testing the latest fast-food offerings in Paris. If he were a stand-up comedian, these essays would be called routines; whatever one calls them, they're sure to raise a smile. The peripatetic, insatiably curious Trillin is invariably entertaining. (Oct.)
Library Journal
Readers who know Trillin's work are justified in expecting from him something quite different from the ordinary travel book, and they will find it here. In this gathering of 15 recollections of holidays, many of which were written originally for periodicals such as The New Yorker , Trillin offers himself as essayist rather than descriptive writer, interpreter rather than guide. With him most of the time were his wife Alice and two daughters, and their experiences--renting a house in the south of France, shopping at the Central Market in Florence, and hanging around the small French town of Uzes--provide the themes of a readable, unexacting book of pleasant rambles and a multiplicity of small happenings and human stories. Those who like bright, inconsequential chatter, with many diverse scraps of information thrown in, will enjoy this book. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/1/89.-- A.J. Anderson, Graduate Sch. of Library & Information Science, Simmons Coll., Boston
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