Now You're Cooking For Company

by Elaine Corn

You don't have to be an experienced cook to throw a great party. All you need is a few solid recipes and the know-how to put them together. You'll find both in Now You're Cooking for Company.

With her award-winning cookbook Now You're Cooking, Elaine Corn gave beginning cooks the simple, straight-talking cookbook they had been looking for for decades. In that ground-breaking cookbook she started with the basics and explained every step, from chopping and measuring to cooking and serving. Both the Julia Child Award and the James Beard Award judges named it the best general cookbook of the year. Tens of thousands of new cooks and hundreds of rave reviews called it the best beginner's cookbook, period.

Now Corn turns her attention to the challenges of entertaining. As encouraging, helpful, and humorous as ever, she guides first-time party-givers through all the steps of feeding guests. She'll teach you to plan a menu, set a beautiful table, and even clean up quickly and easily after everyone's gone.

Her 120 company recipes are impressive enough to draw "ooohs" and "aaahs," but are amazingly easy to prepare. On your first time out, perhaps you'll try a simple burrito buffet or steak and corn grilled outdoors. Follow up that success with a real homemade birthday cake, authentic Texas chili, or a knockout lasagne.

When the holidays roll around, you'll be ready to play host, armed with complete menus for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and Passover, all of them spectacular to serve, all of them clearly explained and easy to prepare -- even if you've never cooked for company before.

Why not start today? Your friends are hoping for an invitation.

Hardcover, two-color throughout, 6" x 9", 320 pages, $24.95. ISBN 1-883791-03-0

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