Starters : Great Beginnings from Appetizers to Soups

Here are more than 200 recipes for starters that are sure to impress, but take less than 30 minutes of preparation time. Whether you’re throwing a cocktail party and want fuss-free nibbles with fashionable flair or you want to start a meal with a delicious-but-easy offering, this cookbook is for you.

Starters includes appetizers, hot, cold, and make-ahead, that will create a knockout impression – including Red Pepper Canapes and Shrimp with Chili-Lime Sauce. For fast starts to the weekday or weekend meal, there are lots of soups – hot and cold – such as Celeriac and Pear Soup and Chicken and Shiitake Soup with Coconut Milk.

Here, too, are salads – with meat and seafood or without, for the vegetarians among us. Other chapters include Breads, Dips, Spreads and Salsas, and Drinks.

As in the other bestselling Food Express cookbooks, ingredients are highlighted for easy use, full-colour photography illustrates many of the dishes, and fun illustrations pepper the pages. There’s an icon indicating recipes that can be prepared ahead, and pages full of tips round out each section.

Monda Rosenberg, Food Editor of Chatelaine, author of The New Chatelaine Cookbook, co-author of The New Vitality Cookbook, and author of the Chatelaine Food Express series, Quickies, Quickies 2: Veggies and More, Quickies Pasta, Sizzlers, Sweeties, Starters, and Quickies Chicken, is a Canadian authority on food. She has been a well-known food editor for over 25 years, working five years with the Toronto Star and for the last 20 years with Chatelaine. She has won many awards for her nutrition writing and food styling, including the much-coveted Silver Ladle Award from the Toronto Culinary Guild in 1990.