Food Network stars and Paula Deen progeny offer up more than 100 recipes for grilling, tailgate parties and picnics.
Break out the grill and fill the cooler with ice. The Deen brothers (The Deen Bros. Take It Easy, 2009, etc.) are back with another lively compilation of Southern-style recipes. This time around, the table is set for the great outdoors, and the authors divide up the recipes accordingly, with chapters entitled "On the Grill," "On the Field" and "On the Beach." While not everyone will have access to lobster tails or live blue crabs for beach cookouts, most recipes call for ingredients that can be easily sourced at the local grocery store. Meat takes center stage, but don't write this off as the average burger-on-the-grill cookbook. In addition to old favorites like BBQ, the authors instruct readers in the art of "Beer Can Chicken with Sweet and Spicy Vidalia Onions" and "Minty Lamb Chops Stuffed with Feta and Chicken." Non-meat offerings vary widely, including flatbreads, pasta salads and vegetable dishes. Readers shouldn't despair if they don't have access to a grill; items such as salads, wraps and dips, including the black-eyed pea spread "Georgia Caviar," feature prominently. Wash it all down with “Frosty Piña Colada Punch" or one of eight other "Seaside Sippers." With easy-to-follow recipes, full-page pictures and humorous prose, the Deens serve up a fun and appealing culinary collection. Perfect for readers who enjoy a little sunshine on their plate.
Pub Date: April 19, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-345-51363-2
Page Count: -
Publisher: Ballantine
Review Posted Online: March 2, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2011
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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