Beat This! Cookbook: Absolutely Unbeatable Knock-'em-Dead Recipes for the Very Best Dishes - Softcover

Hodgman, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0547437005 ISBN 13: 9780547437002

Publisher: Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011

Synopsis

Here is a challenge few cooks can resist: put these recipes up against the best of your own. In this book, Spy magazine's original food columnist throws down the gauntlet with a solid collection of can't-fail recipes that most readers will find irresistible—and unbeatable. Whether it's for cheesecake, crab cakes, chicken salad, blueberry pie, beef stew, or fudge, the author takes all-time North American favorite dishes and pulls out all the stops.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Praise for Beat This! and Ann Hodgman

"Beat This! is the funniest, most engaging book about food I’ve ever come across." —Graydon Carter, editor in chief, Vanity Fair

"Anyone who has been blue lately, or has spent more than five minutes in the kitchen, should buy this." —Corby Kummer, Atlantic Monthly

"Delightfully witty . . . Every recipe I’ve tried has become one of my favorites." —Washington Post

"[Ann Hodgman’s] brash attitude and obvious skill are a winning combination." —Miami Herald

"Ann Hodgman is that rarest of creatures: a humorist and a cookbook author whose recipes really work." —Newsday

Ann Hodgman is the author of Beat That! Cookbook and One Bite Won’t Kill You. She has written more than forty children’s books. She has also contributed articles to The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Food & Wine, Gourmet, Smithsonian, and many women’s and parenting magazines.

About the Author:

[repeats catalog second page copy]
When Ann Hodgman wants to make a recipe better, she says, she "just doubles the chocolate and adds some bacon." Along with the original Beat This!,ANN HODGMAN is the author of Beat That! and One Bite Won’t Kill You. She has written more than forty children’s books, including, most recently, How to Die of Embarrassment Every Day. Hodgman has written articles for TheNew Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly,Food & Wine,Smithsonian, and just about all of the women’s and parenting magazines.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0547437005
• ISBN 13: 9780547437002
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256