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Review Date: 2/13/2013
Copyright 1962. 62 pages.110 wonderful recipes for entertaining buffet style. Lots of great ideas! Includes appetizers, drinks, sauces, sides and entrees, desserts too. Each section is given a party theme like, "something for the boys" or "red carpet buffet."
Review Date: 6/30/2011
I've read and enjoyed other books by Scott Westerfeld, so I was a bit surprised that I didn't care for this one. I read the book aloud to my 12 and 14 yr olds as an evening ritual and was glad I did so I could sensor the foul language from their ears. Why the author felt the need to add so much foul language is beyond me especially since the book is geared toward young people. The story was a bit difficult to follow for my kids, and the ending left them disappointed, but they did enjoy the factoids and historical trivia that was scattered throughout the book. It is an interesting concept, but fell flat in the delivery.
Review Date: 2/13/2013
Box set of 4 cookbooks, each covering a different topic: Pasta, Stir-Fry, Cookies, and Chicken. From the back cover: Creative cooking has become easier than ever! These four cook books offer an inspiring array of food ideas featuring four of Sunset's most popular cooking topics. The 256 pages are filled with 140 tantalizing recipes, as well as tips that take the guesswork out of preparing the perfect dish. Over 80 color photos showcase the finished dishes. Easy-to-read ingredients and step-by-step instructions ensure you perfect results every time. Plus, every recipe includes a nutritional analysis and preparation and cooking times. Ideal as a gift or as an addition to your own home cooking library.
Review Date: 3/14/2013
From the slipcover: In this, her fourth collection of short stories, Elspeth Davie, winner of the Katherine Mansfield Prize in 1978, writes with all her customary poise and assurance, and startles with the intensity of her vision. With a glance, sometimes oblique, sometimes direct, she looks at everyday experiences- a train journey, a presentation, a hospital visit- yet manages to invest them with an extraordinary significance, so that we are frequently tripped into realizing how fragile is our grasp of reality.
These stories have been sculpted with the unfailing control of language for which Elspeth Davie is rightly renowned. While many of them are concerned with disillusionment and loneliness, others are pierced through with shafts of wit and humour. In all of them, exposed as we are to the author's cool eye, we cannot fail, however uncomfortably, to recognize a part of ourselves.
These stories have been sculpted with the unfailing control of language for which Elspeth Davie is rightly renowned. While many of them are concerned with disillusionment and loneliness, others are pierced through with shafts of wit and humour. In all of them, exposed as we are to the author's cool eye, we cannot fail, however uncomfortably, to recognize a part of ourselves.
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