Cooking for the Weekend: Food for the Best of Times

A guide to cooking food for fun features forty-eight menus and more than 175 recipes for family-style breakfasts, chic yet easy brunches, comforting Sunday suppers, and others.

McLaughlin is a food writer and professional chef, author of many cookbooks, including another menu cookbook, The New American Kitchen ( LJ 8/1/90). Here he presents seasonal menus for weekend meals, from Saturday lunch to Sunday "later on," with a scattering of quick dishes for Friday nights. Menus are well thought-out, and each includes a plan for action; the recipes are full-bodied and flavorful--real food for family and friends. There are lots of good ideas here, making McLaughlin's version of this concept far more satisfying than Bonnie Leblang and Joanne Hayes's The Weekend Kitchen ( LJ 4/15/92). For most collections. BOMC Homestyle alternate.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.