The Winter Table: Fireside Feasts for Family and Friends

Come in from the cold and celebrate with family and friends! Lisa Lemke’s cookbook presents the comforting delights of hearty wintertime meals.
There’s nothing better than coming home on a wintry evening to the welcoming aroma of a bubbling stew or comforting soup. Lisa Lemke, author of The Summer Table, now changes seasons and brings her prodigious gifts to more than 75 recipes that showcase wintertime ingredients. Her soul-satisfying dishes range from a savory rye risotto with oyster mushrooms browned in butter to mouthwatering roasts and casseroles to blazingly hot chili, and even good old mac ’n’ cheese. To-die-for desserts include an apple toffee, an almond crumble, a fragrant pear pie, and sublime tiramisu. These sensational recipes will assure that everyone you love is warm, happy, and well fed.

Lisa Lemke, a freelance food consultant, recipe developer, food stylist, and television chef, lives in a small town on the west coast of Sweden. She writes about food in various media, including magazines, books, radio, television, and advertising. She is the author of The Summer Table (Sterling Epicure), and the host of My Kitchen on TV4. Together with Tommy Myllymäkki, one of Sweden's biggest chefs, she gives viewers recipes and culinary inspiration twice a day, Monday through Saturday, on the popular morning show Nyhetsmorgon. Lemke lives in the countryside, in an old vicarage, on the west coast of Sweden with her husband Marcus Nordgren, also a chef, and their two small children.