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Tells how to plan a dinner party, recommends seasonal menus, and includes recipes for appetizers, side dishes, main dishes, salads, and desserts
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From Publishers Weekly
While California caterer and cooking teacher Braden ( Fast and Flashy Hors d'Oeuvres ) shares insights and strategies for organizing the often tense and sometimes tumultuous enterprise of giving a dinner party, following her recipes (which comprise the bulk of the book) may tilt even skilled cooks into a tizzy. Many recipes lack portion yields. In fact, one for cheese-stuffed mushrooms in grape leaves is utterly devoid of both the yield and the amounts of ingredients needed. The author also makes the questionable assumption that readers everywhere are familiar with all ingredients. Pickled ginger, grapeseed oil, pasilla peppers and black fungus are each listed as ingredients, with no mention of where to obtain them or what to use as substitutes. (An initial, explanatory "cook's shelf" section, identifying ingredients, is simply a grocery list with no definitions, preparation or storage advice.) And no one should take for granted that readers know how to clean mussels, or how to "rehydrate" dried chili peppers. Equally iffy is the notion that one might be able to choose a "medium hot" dried ancho chili peppersic as recommended. While Braden's recipes are festive, too many are unnecessarily complex. Why fuss with orzo bulgur risotto, when a well-prepared traditional risotto is a culinary joy?
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Braden is a California caterer and author of Fast and Flashy Hors d'Oeuvres (Acropolis, 1988); here she offers 24 seasonal menus for entertaining, planned down to the last detail. For each menu there are suggestions for flowers and table decoration as well as presentation, timetables for advance preparation, appropriate wines, ideas for variations and leftovers, and a simpler version of the menu itself. Many of the recipes are California/nouvelle in inspiration, so a few seem either too trendy or already passe, but overall this is a good addition to the entertaining genre.
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- PublisherMacmillan Pub Co
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0025143700
- ISBN 13 9780025143708
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
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