The Junior League at Home: Meals and Menus for Everyday and Special Occasions FROM THE PUBLISHER
More than 400 recipes, forty-eight menus, entertaining tips, table decorations, and sumptuous photographs make this the most engaging and ambitious Junior League collection to date.
At home for members of the Junior League can mean anything from a Mother's Day brunch or an elegant dinner for six to a Labor Day backyard barbecue or a Pumpkin-fest celebration. The menus and recipes in this all-new collection reveal the diversity of the members of the Junior League and their close connection to ethnic, regional, and family foodways handed down and refined from one generation to the next.
From appetizers to desserts-and all the courses in between-The Junior League at Home features favorite home-tested recipes drawn from League cookbooks and members. Each of the twelve chapters offers a selection of seasonal menus with advice for planning and food preparation. The book also highlights ideas for stress-free entertaining, as well as innovative tablescape and decorating suggestions-including a fully illustrated section on the lost art of napkin folding.
Author Biography: The Association of Junior Leagues International Inc. has published two previous collections, The Junior League Centennial Cookbook and The Junior League Celebration Cookbook, which have more than 400,000 copies in print.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
Drawing on the contributions from the Junior Leagues' numerous cookbooks, this latest offering celebrates eating with family and friends. With 48 suggested menus for every occasion and the time lines needed to produce them, the 400 recipes are divided by category. Each category is linked to a month of the year, and ranges from January's Appetizers to December's Cookies, Brownies & Bars. Each month is prefaced with some aspect of the work that the League does in the members' various communities. The recipes, many traditional, include standbys like the slightly spicy Deviled Eggs and the perennial Caesar Salad, but many reflect more contemporary cuisine, such as Pesto Mashed Potatoes and Grilled Balsamic Chicken Breasts. Interspersed are helpful hints and tips on entertaining, from place cards to table decorations, as well as a five-page section covering the declining art of napkin folding. Ranging in difficulty from easy to advanced, there is something suitable here for every level of proficiency. (Nov.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
Like The Junior League Celebration Cookbook, this features hundreds of recipes from League cookbooks from all over the country. Recipes are grouped generally by course and by month (e.g., "Appetizers" is linked with January); each chapter then includes several seasonal menus. The many regional specialties differ widely in sophistication: an elaborate Thai Spicy Prawn Soup made with a variety of exotic ingredients (and featuring a tip from renowned chef Thomas Keller) is followed by Santa Fe Soup, which calls for six different canned goods and two types of packaged seasoning mixes. For collections where the Association's earlier titles are popular. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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