Simply Elegant: A Guide for Elegant But Simple Entertaining

"Simply Elegant" a guide for elegant but simple entertaining. Old fashioned cooking, baking, and entertaining are made simple with recipes and menus written in an easy to follow, step by step format. "Simply Elegant" features 379 mouth watering recipes. Some favorites include Brisket a la Gordon, Baked Fresh Salmon, Roast Turkey and Dressing with Candied Sweet Potatoes, plus numerous recipes for Pies, Cakes, Cookies and Desserts, including the most Delicate Pie Crust you have ever tasted. "Simply Elegant" is more than just another cookbook. It contains 23 catagories of menus, recipes, and other articles. You'll get tips on entertaining, how to set the elegant dining table, color pictures, several menu and drink ideas, you'll even find out what to do with those extra egg whites and yolks. If you have children that are fussy eaters, you'll enjoy the "children's loves" section. There is also a special Passover section. Tenth revised edition.

Pearl Sgutt Gordon was born in Minot, North Dakota and attended the University of Minnesota where she met her husband Marvin and they moved to his hometown of Topeka, Kansas. This is where she wrote "Simply Elegant" as a survival manual for their eldest son that was away at college.

"Simply Elegant" was first published in 1970 and sold out in two months. That same year, Pearl ran for the Kansas Legislature. In the 1970's and 80's, they lived in the Chicago suburbs of Winnetka and Northbrook before retiring to Tucson, Arizona. Pearl said, "My favorite dinner guests are my very own children."