Soap: Making It, Enjoying It

How to make beautiful gift soaps at home with instructions for coloring, scenting, molding, and carving. Selection of the Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service. 140,000 copies in print.

ANN   BRAMSON Ann Bramson was recently named Publisher of Artisan Books, a division of Workman Publishing. Prior to that, she was VP and Senior Editor at William Morrow & Company. In the course of her career, she has worked with such major cookbook writers as Julia Child (Baking with Julia), Jacques Pepin (La Technique, La Methode, The Short-Cut Cook), Craig Claiborne (Elements of Etiquette, Craig Claiborne's Favorites), Barbara Kafka (Roasting, Party Food, Microwave Gourmet) and Guiliano Bugialli (Classic Techniques of Italian Cooking). She has published many chefs, bakers, and restaurateurs Ñ among them Paul Prudhomme, Larry Forgione, Biba Caggiano, Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken, Joyce Goldstein, Jim Peterson, Nancy Silverton, Amy Scherber, Jeremiah Tower, and Chris Schlesinger Ñ and has been instrumental in producing major works under the imprimaturs of such diverse institutions as Good Housekeeping and Le Cordon Bleu.