Dinners for Two: Recipes from Romantic Country Inns, Music by the San Francisco String Quartet (Cookbook & Music CD Boxed Set)

Some of life's happiest moments are spent at dinners for two! Cooks can take an excursion to some of the most romantic destinations in North America via the kitchen and dining room in their own homes. The menu cookbook is a collection of recipes from fine country inns of the United States and Canada.

The music CD of classical music provides a romantic dinner concert.

Sharon O'Connor is building a career around her passions. She travels the world collaborating with great chefs and musicians, bringing together food, art, music, and travel to create her two best-selling series, Menus and Music® and MusicCooks®. After graduating from the University of California with degrees in music and sociology, Sharon continued her education in Europe at the renowned Amsterdam Conservatory of Music.

Upon returning to the Bay Area, she established the San Francisco String Quartet, and for sixteen years the quartet performed in the Garden Court of San Francisco's celebrated Palace Hotel. In her remarkable career as a musician, O'Connor has recorded and performed with music icons such as Frank Sinatra, Van Morrison, Tony Bennett, Linda Ronstadt, and Aretha Franklin!

In 1985, Sharon founded Menus and Music and became the first person to ever package a cookbook with music. Now with more than thirty titles, O'Connor's publications have sold millions of copies worldwide.

Sharon O'Connor lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her husband and two daughters enthusiastically help in the research, travel, and tasting for her series.