Cooking for Mr. Right - Softcover

Bean, Mimi; De Gery, Rebecca Chastenet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806527021 ISBN 13: 9780806527024

Publisher: Citadel Pr, 2006

Synopsis

Restaurateur Mimi Bean and food writer Rebecca Chastenet de Gery have concocted recipes that are geared to help women get to their man's heart in record-breaking time. A lighthearted look at dating a range of men from The Starving Artist to The Rugged Outdoorsman to The Alpha Male, and the meals that will lure them to love. Along with delectable recipes Cooking for Mr. Right includes suggestions for music to set the mood, cocktail and appetizer ideas, Aphrodisiacs 101, and a section of dream menus from celebrities.

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Bean and co-author de Gery offer up a fistful of menus for landing different types of men in this jejune cookbook that reads as if Sex and the City were set during the Eisenhower administration. The premise is recipes (and table settings, music, drinks, behavior and home décor) have been tailored to appeal to different male personality stereotypes: there's Mr. Magnate, a "Daddy Warbucks who's a catch on two fronts" and responds to dishes like Swordfish Au Poivre with Cognac Mustard Sauce. Then there's Mr. All-Nighter, a boozehound fueled by carb-heavy food like pizza, fried calamari and tiramisu. The recipes are varied, complex and well-balanced, yet are probably beyond the scope of the intended audience. The Key West Key Lime Pie, for example, calls for actual key limes, yet offers no tips on how to juice the gumball-sized limes (though readers can substitute bottled key lime juice if they can find it). The Swordfish Au Poivre requires clarified butter, a relatively simple but maddening technique for those unfamiliar with it. The recipes and menus are inventive and challenging (much more so than the men they're designed to attract), but they're unfortunately paired with advice that alternates between the sophomoric and pedantic. With a lighter hand, the book could have been fun, but a current of desperation and neediness undermines the text.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Citadel Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806527021
• ISBN 13: 9780806527024
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 202