A guide to family cookery features more than two hundred master recipes for everyday dining and special family occasions, along with imaginative ideas for variations and improvisations, including seasonal salads, vegetables, soups, pastas, sauces, main courses, and desserts.

The popular TV chef offers a gastronomic tour of her native Italy, exploring the regional culinary traditions that have shaped her cooking, in a collection of 140 tempting recipes based on the cuisine of Rome, Sicily, Tuscany, and beyond.

Product Description: In this inspiring new book, Lidia Bastianich awakens in us a new respect for food and for the people who produce it in the little-known parts of Italy that she explores. All of the recipes reflect the regions from which they spring, and in translating them to our home kitchens, Lidia passes on time-honored techniques and wonderful, uncomplicated recipes for dishes bursting with different regional flavors—the kind of elemental, good family cooking that is particularly appreciated today...read more

Product Description: How many minutes should you cook green beans? Is it better to steam them or to boil them?What are the right proportions for a vinaigrette?How do you skim off fat?What is the perfect way to roast a chicken?Julia Child gave us extensive answers to all these questions–and so many more–in the masterly books she published over the course of her career...read more

Bringing together the culinary expertise of two fine cooks, this evocative celebration of great Southern cookery introduces 225 delicious recipes--ranging from perfect pan-fried chicken and creamy grits to biscuits and homemade pies--along with reflections on the history of Southern food and anecdotes about the people and traditions that shaped it. 50,000 first printing.

Product Description: Ever look around the walls of your home and think, "Blah!" Do you have Martha-Stewart envy? Do you buy decorating magazines by the dozen and just end up throwing up hands at the impossibility of the task of re-doing your home? Fret no more...read more

Two legendary culinary masters join their talents in a creative cookbook that demonstrates the best in traditional French home cookery, with a delectable assortment of recipes that range from soups to desserts, in a companion volume to the new PBS-TV series. 300,000 first printing. Good Cook Main. First serial, Gourmet.

One of the nation's most successful caterers reveals her secrets for preparing impressive dinners for guests with a minimum of time, expense, and anxiety, serving up twenty-five menus for all occasions and ways to deal with culinary disasters.