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Cocktails Southern Style
Let your Southern hospitality shine when you serve your guests drinks, cocktails, or nonalcoholic beverages from this delectable compilation of classic and newly-inspired recipes. Belinda Smith-Sullivan’s Cocktails, Southern Style: Pours, Drinks, Sips, and Bites is a collection of approximately 90 recipes for classic Southern cocktails, new flavor-profile mixed drinks, and a bonus chapter of nibbles—after all we are talking about Southern hospitality, and no Southern host would serve you a drink without offering a tasty treat to accompany it!
Bites on a Board
Delicious recipes and creative presentations served up on a board. Cutting boards aren’t just for prep anymore. From classic charcuterie boards with prosciutto, olives, and roasted figs to luscious dessert boards with mini cheesecakes and red-wine ice-cream bites, food stylist Anni Daulter shows creative hosts how to make the most of their boards and serving platters. With rustic, trendy, pickled, and even culturally-inspired boards and recipes, the last thing you’ll want to do when you’re finished cooking is put away the cutting board.
Big Dips
Yummy bowls of fix-in-a-jiff blends go with crudités, breads, crackers, chips, and more. When you’re serving party nibbles, there’s always room for another appetizer. Whip up some Pumpkin Pepita Hummus to add a dash of color and flavor to a harvest-themed gathering, or put out a bowl of Cheesy Pub Dip to get those football fans cheering. These dips can even add a zesty twist to your next meal: try Watermelon Cucumber Salsa as a topping for salad on a hot summer day, or drop a scoop of Cilantro Peanut Pesto into your stir-fry to take it to the next level. These flavorful recipes require little to no cooking and will delight any palate.
Small Bites
Big flavors come in small bites. With Small Bites, hosts for all occasions can prepare easy appetizers that will impress and delight any crowd. You can choose from more than 60 savory recipes for finger foods, skewers and picks, and sandwiches and sliders. Whether hosting a sophisticated soirée or a game-day gathering, nibbles are a necessity! Give Mini Asian Lettuce Wraps or Beef Oscar Tartlets a try for finger foods, or for skewers and picks, whip up a Greek Salad on a Stick or Prosciutto-Wrapped Pears with Watercress and Brie. If little sandwiches or sliders are on the menu, Mini Muffuletta Sandwiches or Avocado Toasts with Balsamic Glaze and Cherry Tomatoes will fill the bill. You can’t go wrong with any of the recipes in this book.
Southern Sugar
Let Chef Belinda enhance your sweets menu with her warm hospitality, cooking tips, and approximately 100 flavor-packed recipes for decadent southern desserts and treats. There is a little bit of “Southerner” in all of us! You don’t have to be from the South to embrace the food—especially the sweets. There is just something about Southern treats that appeal to the hearts, souls, and stomachs of everyone! Just think of decadent, sweet delights filled with lots of sugar, butter, nuts, and fruit, or dripping with chocolate, caramel, whipped cream, and yes, even bourbon!
Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana
Join beloved chef Kevin Belton as he explores Louisiana’s diverse flavors in this award-winning cookbook featuring 78 unique parish recipes—from Smoked Meat Loaf to Fried Alligator—paired with Kevin’s signature humor and storytelling charm. 2021 Foreword Indies, Honorable Mention: Cooking
Kevin Belton’s fourth cookbook and television series focuses on the amazing food found throughout Louisiana.
The Southern Entertainer’s Cookbook
Serve up classics and new favorites from a Southern perspective. In The Southern Entertainer’s Cookbook, Courtney Whitmore shares her party go-tos, from appetizers and salads to entrees, drinks and desserts. In addition to sharing modern twists on classics and beloved heirloom recipes from her family’s cookbooks (not to worry, no archaic methods or hard-to-find ingredients here), Courtney provides tips throughout to make the most of your gathering: try embellishing a plate with edible flower petals or create mini versions of a well-known dessert.
Egg Rolls & Sweet Tea
Southern foodways intersect with various Asian-American tastes in this fusion cookbook of 100 recipes celebrating inclusivity and diversity at the dinner table with the best from various cultures, cooking styles, and comforting foods. “’Can food be the catalyst for accepting diversity?’ asks Sauce Maven founder Keng…in the introduction… Keng gleefully mixes cuisines and high and low culture: an elegant recipe for a whole fish fit for a banquet is followed by instructions for frozen fish sticks atop congee. The fusion is clever…This playful collection answers its opening query in the affirmative, and has fun along the way.”—Publishers Weekly
Let’s Brunch
Lend a little Southern hospitality to your brunch menu with approximately 85 flavor-packed recipes for breakfast and brunch, including front porch-worthy libations, from Chef Belinda Smith-Sullivan. Brunch, a meal designed for leisure and good times spent with family and friends, is the perfect target for Belinda Smith-Sullivan’s Southern flavors and hospitality. Smith-Sullivan grew up at her grandmother’s elbow, learning how to cook from scratch long before she had any professional training.
French Country Cottage Inspired Gatherings
A layered mix of tableware and flower arrangements set the stage for inspired entertaining. Entertaining starts with setting a fabulous table. In Courtney Allison’s signature French Country Cottage style, she showcases a myriad of romantic table settings for every occasion. Courtney provides the styling expertise to host your own French Country Cottage–inspired gathering, whether in the backyard, at the beach, under an old oak tree, or in a country barn.
A Loving Table
Inspiring tables and entertaining styles of 34 tastemakers in their regions or society at large show how they keep traditions passed down from mothers and grandmothers alive in their families. Thirty style-setting women pay tribute to how their mothers and grandmothers have influenced their own styles of entertaining at home. Whether they proudly incorporate recipes passed down from a grandmother’s collection or follow a mother’s lessons for making guests feel comfortable, it is clear that family role models have had a strong influence.
Alpenglow
“A guide for cooking and entertaining that’s as thoughtful as it is beautiful. Readers are encouraged to make the most of seasonal bounties and wonders by embracing rituals and gathering outdoors.”—Library Journal A jewel of a book celebrates creative outdoor entertaining in the high Mountain West. Alpenglow is filled with creative parties and fun country activities throughout the four seasons. The stories and scenes are set in the high mountain valley of Jackson Hole, Wyoming—but the gatherings and parties could take place anywhere.
101 Things To Do With An Air Fryer
The new edition of 101 Things to Do With an Air Fryer has a groovy new look to showcase all the easy-to-make 101 recipes using an air fryer. For that gorgeous golden-brown color and the perfect crisp, you need an air fryer. Donna Kelly’s 101 Things to Do With an Air Fryer is jam-packed with indulgent favorites without deep frying. From chicken wings to onion rings, these recipes bring back all the classics and add a dash of something new.
101 Things To Do With Bacon
The new edition of 101 Things to Do With Bacon has a groovy new look to showcase all the easy-to-make 101 bacon-filled recipes. Eliza Cross, founder of the bacon lovers society BENSA, knows bacon! This redesigned new edition of 101 Things to Do With Bacon offers up some of her best recipes and helpful hints to get that flavorful crispy, crunchy meat in your belly. And these recipes are not just for breakfast. You’ll find fun twists on old favorites as well as creative new recipes for salads, soups, sandwiches, appetizers, entrees, and even desserts!
101 Things To Do With A BBQ
The new edition has a groovy new look to showcase all the easy-to-make 101 recipes using a backyard grill in this bestselling cookbook from a series with over 3 million copies sold. The new edition of Steve Tillett’s 101 Things to Do With a BBQ, with its with Helpful Hints, Advanced Grilling Tips, bonus section on superb Sauces and Rubs, and 101 recipes, will have you becoming a backyard-barbeque guru for outdoor grilling and summer parties in no time.
101 Things To Do With A Bundt® Pan
The new edition of 101 Things to Do With a Bundt® Pan has a groovy new look to showcase all the easy-to-make 101 recipes made in a Bundt® pan. Packed with delicious recipe ideas cooked in everyone’s favorite iconic pan, Jenny Hartin’s new edition of 101 Things to Do With a Bundt® Pan will help the home cook serve up quick and easy one-pan dishes from breakfasts, breads, cakes and desserts, to savory appetizers and brunch ideas, sides, and main dishes, including comfort foods such as meatloaf, lasagna, mac and cheese, and even roast chicken. Nothing bundt tasty!
101 Things To Do With A Cake Mix
The new edition of 101 Things to Do With a Cake Mix has a fun updated design to showcase its 101 easy-to-make recipes featuring this pantry staple. Dessert will be a piece of cake when you turn to any of the delicious recipes in 101 Things to Do With a Cake Mix! With recipes for cookies, bars, muffins, and of course, cakes, you’ll always find something to satisfy any sweet tooth, no matter the holiday or occasion. Discover dozens of unexpected and classic treats, all made with a simple box of cake mix.
101 Things To Do With A Casserole
The new edition of 101 Things to Do With a Casserole has a fun updated design to showcase its 101 easy-to-make casserole recipes. Whether you’ve had a late night at work or have limited ingredients and finicky kids, the mighty casserole is the answer to the grumbling in everyone’s tummy. This book is the affordable, easy, and simple guide to creating over 100 home-cooked, fill-you-up, warm-your-heart masterpieces using your beloved casserole dish.
101 Things To Do With Chicken
A groovy new look to showcase all the easy-to-make 101 recipes featuring chicken in this bestselling cookbook from a series with over 3 million copies sold. This new edition of 101 Things to Do With Chicken by Donna Kelly and Stephanie Ashcraft will delight poultry lovers. Filled with ideas for using chicken in appetizers, soups and salads, sandwiches and wraps, main dishes, casseroles, family favorites, and dishes fit for company, this compact cookbook is simple to use.
101 Things To Do With Chocolate
A groovy new look to showcase all the easy-to-make 101 recipes featuring chocolate in this bestselling cookbook from a series with over 3 million copies sold. Chocolate lovers rejoice! Satisfy your chocolate cravings in 101 different ways with the newest addition to the 101 cookbook series, 101 Things to Do With Chocolate.
101 Things To Do With A Dutch Oven
The new edition has a groovy new look to showcase all the easy-to-make 101 recipes using a cast-iron Dutch oven in this bestselling cookbook from a series with over 3 million copies sold. Dutch oven cooking has long been popular out West, but when people nationwide find out just how easy and delicious Dutch oven cooking is, they’ll be scrambling to get one!
101 Things To Do With Grits
The new edition of 101 Things to Do With Grits has a groovy new look to showcase the easy-to-make 101 recipes using grits in this bestselling cookbook from a series of over 3 million copies sold. Grits have been called the “first truly American food.” But any Southern cook worth their salt knows it’s what you add to grits that makes them a delicious part of any meal. A simple porridge made from stone-ground hominy corn, grits can transform into anything from pancakes to appetizers and even desserts.
101 Things To Do With An Instant Pot®
The new edition of 101 Things to Do With an Instant Pot® has a groovy new look to showcase all the easy-to-make 101 recipes using an Instant Pot. How do you get dinner on the table in just minutes? With a multi-use modern pressure cooker and the new edition of Donna Kelly’s 101 Things to Do With an Instant Pot®. You can quickly whip up easy and flavorful appetizers, soups and stews, beef, pork, poultry, fish and seafood dishes, vegetarian and vegan entrees, sides, and desserts.
101 Things To Do With Pasta
This new cookbook from Donna Kelly has 101 achievable and flavorful recipes using pasta. The recipes in this compact cookbook are ideal for home cooks seeking to make easy, economical, and nourishing family-friendly meals, including gluten-free options. Pasta is the perfect delivery system for healthy ingredients like leafy greens, lean meats, beans, or fish. It’s also a healthy comfort food and one of the most affordable meal options on shelves.
101 Things To Do With A Pickle
The new edition of 101 Things to Do With a Pickle has a groovy new look to showcase all the easy-to-make 101 recipes using pickles. This new edition of 101 Things to Do With a Pickle by Eliza Cross is a fun and zesty cookbook full of recipes for making pickles as well as using them in a dill-icious collection of pickle appetizers, sandwiches, salads, dinners, and even desserts. Dill, gherkin, spear, chip, sour, or sweet pickles star in recipes such as Sweet and Sour Mustard Pickles, Bacon-Wrapped Pickle Poppers, Dill Pickle Soup, Roast Pickle Potatoes, and Sweet Pickle Pie.
101 Things To Do With A Potato
A groovy new look to showcase all the easy-to-make 101 recipes featuring potatoes in this bestselling cookbook from a series with over 3 million copies sold. This new edition of 101 Things to Do With a Potato by Stephanie Ashcraft will delight fans of the potato, whether your favorite is russet potatoes, red or yellow potatoes, new potatoes, or even sweet potatoes. Filled with ideas for using potatoes in soups and stews, salads, appetizers, main dishes, side dishes, breakfast dishes, and even dessert, this compact cookbook is simple to use.
101 Things To Do With Pork
A groovy new look to showcase all the easy-to-make 101 recipes featuring pork in this bestselling cookbook from a series with over 3 million copies sold. This new cookbook from Eliza Cross has 101 creative recipes using every variety of pork—ham, bacon, pork chops, pork sausage, ground pork, pork roast, pork tenderloin, pork belly, pulled pork, bratwurst, chorizo, kielbasa, Canadian bacon, spare ribs, and baby back ribs. The recipes feature numerous cooking methods for all kinds of pork and are ideal for home cooks seeking to make easy, economical, and nourishing family-friendly meals, starters, and sides.
101 Things To Do With Ramen Noodles
The new edition of 101 Things to Do With Ramen Noodles has a fun updated design to showcase its 101 easy-to-make recipes that will elevate this pantry staple. Ramen noodles are fast, easy, filling—and endlessly customizable! Learn how to transform this affordable pantry staple into delicious recipes, including: Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup, Summer Garden Soup, Zucchini Salad, Creamy Beef and Broccoli Noodles, Ramen Burgers, Ham and Cheese Ramen Omelets, Pork Chop Ramen, Tuna Noodle Casserole, Ramen Nachos, and Cheesy Ranch Ramen.
101 Things To Do With Rotisserie Chicken
A groovy new look to showcase all the easy-to-make 101 recipes featuring rotisserie chicken in this bestselling cookbook from a series with over 3 million copies sold. This new edition of 101 Things to Do With Rotisserie Chicken by Madge Baird will delight poultry lovers. Learn how to stretch a single chicken into several family- and budget-friendly meals with creative recipes from salads to stir-fries. Minimize your time in the kitchen by using moist, delectable rotisserie chicken as your main ingredient.
101 Things To Do With A Slow Cooker
The new edition of 101 Things to Do With a Slow Cooker has a fun updated design to showcase its 101 easy-to-make fix-it-and-forget-it recipes. A home-cooked meal is never easier than with a slow cooker. Simply prepare your ingredients and go about your day! From Mallow-Mint Hot Chocolate to Pizza Fondue, from Easy Beef Stroganoff to Sweet-and-Sour Chicken, and from Barbecue Pork Sandwiches to Pineapple-Upside-Down Cake, 101 Things to Do With a Slow Cooker has a no-fuss recipe for whatever you’re craving.
101 Things To Do With A Smoker
101 Things to Do With a Smoker presents 101 easy and creative recipes, along with helpful hints and smoking tips, designed for the novice user of multiple kinds of smokers. Where there’s smoke, there’s flavor! Explore great techniques and tasty new recipes with the breakfasts, appetizers, sandwiches, sides, main courses, and sweets in 101 Things to Do With a Smoker. This cookbook also includes helpful hints for smoking foods to perfection, plus recipes to make your own brines, rubs, and sauces.
101 Things To Do With A Tortilla
The new edition of 101 Things to Do With a Tortilla has a groovy new look to showcase all the easy-to-make 101 recipes using tortillas. This new edition of 101 Things to Do With a Tortilla by Stephanie Ashcraft and Donna Kelly takes tortillas from being simple staples to tasty, nutritious meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and more. Easy-to-make recipes such as Southwest Egg Rolls, Chicken Caesar Wraps, Green Chile Tortilla Soup, Huevos Migas, Vegetarian Taco Casserole, Tortillas in Black Bean Sauce, and Cherry Enchiladas will have your family well-fed in no time.
Just Peachy
Savor the juicy secrets of peaches with Chef Belinda Smith-Sullivan’s definitive cookbook featuring 70 mouthwatering recipes from breakfasts to cocktails. Chef Belinda Smith-Sullivan, granddaughter of Mississippi sharecroppers, is the go-to resource for everything peaches. Not only does she provide perfect peach recipes, but she also has information about the variety of peaches, history, growing and growers, as well as festivals. There are approximately 70 recipes for breads, breakfasts, appetizers, soups and salads, entrees, desserts, peach pies, sauces, preserves and condiments, and drinks in this beautifully photographed cookbook.
Simply Soup
Inspiration for quick, delicious, healthy bowls of homemade soup. Ranking among warm sweaters and cozy blankets, a piping-hot bowl of soup is a universal symbol for comfort. With recipes ranging from classic to trendy, Simply Soup is full of inspiration to answer every craving. More than 50 recipes, including:
- Chicken and Dumplings
- Asian Hot Pot
- Ham Bone Soup
- Carrot and Parsnip Bisque
- Lentil, Chickpeas, and Greens Soup
Salsas and Tacos
A hot little book with big taste to spice up your meals. New Mexican Cuisine is a unique and delicious melting pot of Spanish, Mexican, Native American, and American Cowboy cultures, techniques, and flavors. Susan Curtis, founder of the Santa Fe School of Cooking, brought together a team of powerhouse cooking instructors to gather the best and boldest recipes ever to fill a tortilla. Enjoy over 50 recipes from familiar classics like Roasted Tomato Salsa and Pork Carnitas Tacos to fresh takes such as Creamy Chicken and Almond Tacos, Grapefruit-Orange Salsa, Tomatillo-Papaya Salsa, and Apple Pie Tacos.
Quesadillas
Sweet and savory recipes that celebrate this classic finger food. Simply put, the quesadilla is a delightful package of melted cheesy goodness—all sandwiched inside crispy tortillas. But now these little gooey snacks we all used to make as kids have evolved into savory meals and scrumptious desserts that are bursting with flavor. Featuring all new photography, Quesadillas contains some of these delicious favorites, including Roasted Veggie and Goat Cheese, Thai Peanut, Parmesan-Crusted Italian, Chicken Caesar, Philly Cheesesteak, Peanut Butter Apple, Triple Chocolate Decadence, and Pecan-Crusted Pear.
Pierogi Love
Explore Casey Barber’s creative cookbook featuring classic Polish fillings alongside innovative options like Rueben, falafel, and sweet varieties including Nutella and PB&J—each recipe accompanied by charming stories from her flavor explorations. Casey Barber’s tribute to the pierogi includes everything from the classic Polish cheddar and potato filling to the American-inspired Rueben pierogi and “Santa Fe-rogi,” and even a world tour with falafel and crab Rangoon. Sweet fillings include sour cherry, lemon, fig & goat cheese, Nutella, and PB&J. There’s something for every party and every taste! Each recipe comes with a charming story from Barber’s extensive explorations in pierogi flavors.
Southern Baked
A decidedly Southern take on sweet and savory pies for celebrations of all kinds, even quiet dinners at home. Pies are perennial, but no one ever claimed they’re easy to make. Amanda Dalton Wilbanks, owner of The Southern Baked Pie Company in Georgia, wants to change that. With only one pastry recipe, pies of every size can be made for any meal: full-size, mini, tassies, and handheld pies both savory and sweet. Each chapter features a full menu centered on a holiday or occasion, with recipes for side dishes, appetizers, and more to complement the flavors of the starring pie.
Historic Cookery
Time-honored, traditional, and authentic recipes from New Mexico. New Mexican cuisine has its own place in culinary traditions. Traditional New Mexican dishes are a unique fusion of various Native American, Mexican, Spanish, European, and even North American cowboy chuckwagon foods and cooking techniques. It is not Mexican or Tex-Mex food. The more than 100 authentic New Mexican dishes in Historic Cookery take you back to the old ways of preparing food, slow-cooked with flavor and just the right finishing touch. The chile sauces, and meat, poultry, fish, cheese, egg, salad, soup, bread, sandwich, dessert, pastry, beverage, and other recipes will have you cooking just like your abuela.
Welcome To Buttermilk Kitchen
100 farm-to-table breakfast, brunch, and lunch recipes with a modern Southern sensibility. Redefine the culinary boundaries of breakfast, brunch, and lunch. 100 recipes designed for the home cook using traditional cooking techniques and farm-fresh ingredients, Welcome to Buttermilk Kitchen includes all-time regional favorites, as well as pantry and refrigerator staples like granola, preserves, pickles, and other condiments. There are pastry recipes, beverages, vegan and vegetarian options, and a leftovers chapter.
Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Celebrations
Join Chef Kevin Belton’s delicious tour through New Orleans’ vibrant festival scene and Discover authentic recipes from the Big Easy’s famous celebrations—from Crawfish Enchiladas to Ham Croquettes with Pear Pepper Jelly. The spotlight in this third book from the star of New Orleans Cooking with Kevin Belton is on the festivals and celebrations of the Big Easy and surrounding areas. New Orleans is known as the Festival Capital of the World, hosting dozens of annual festivals that showcase the unique food and multicultural heritage of the city.
Kevin Belton's Big Flavors of New Orleans
Join Chef Kevin Belton on a culinary journey through New Orleans, featuring authentic Creole recipes and techniques from making perfect roux to mastering Louisiana classics like gumbo, jambalaya, and po’boys with his famous big-flavor approach. Chef Kevin Belton, a true Creole New Orleanian, dishes up the culinary history of his city with recipes that provide both down-home comfort and the big flavors he is famous for. He teaches how to make a perfect roux and explains the background of that holiest trinity of Creole cooking–celery, onion, and bell pepper–while offering his spin on the Louisiana classics of gumbo, jambalaya, étouffée, po’boys, and grillades with grits.
Kevin Belton's New Orleans Kitchen
The next cookbook from the star of TV series New Orleans Cooking with Kevin Belton . . . The gregarious star of the popular television cooking show, New Orleans Cooking with Kevin Belton, is at it again with a second cookbook showcasing even more of his delicious Creole and Cajun recipes. Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen offers tasty New Orleans classic dishes like Crawfish Pie, Fried Oyster Po-Boy with Blue Cheese and Buffalo Sauce, and Duck and Andouille Gumbo with Potato Salad, as well as foreign favorites with a little New Orleans twist, like Cuban Paella, Vietnamese Wonton Soup with Shrimp Dumplings, and Greek Souvlaki with Tzatziki.
Nathalie Dupree's Shrimp and Grits
Discover the newly revised edition of Nathalie Dupree’s classic cookbook featuring now-nationwide comfort foods—updated with fresh photography, exciting new chef recipes, and modern design. Nathalie Dupree was ahead of the curve eight years ago with her classic book Shrimp and Grits. Now this Lowcountry comfort combo is found on restaurant menus all around the country—from top to bottom, coast to coast. All-new photography, new recipes from southern chefs, and a fresh design revamp a southern food cookbook for gift giving or one’s own kitchen library.
Southern Biscuits
Master every type of Southern biscuit with this definitive cookbook featuring easy-to-follow recipes from traditional to gourmet variations, complete with stunning photography and step-by-step instructions. Southern Biscuits features recipes and baking secrets for every biscuit imaginable, including hassle-free easy biscuits to embellished biscuits laced with silky goat butter, crunchy pecans, or tangy pimento cheese. The traditional biscuits in this book encompass a number of types, from beaten biscuits of the Old South and England, to Angel Biscuits:a yeast biscuit sturdy enough to split and fill but light enough to melt in your mouth.
Nathalie Dupree's Favorite Stories & Recipes
Personal stories and recipes reveal the culinary journey of Nathalie Dupree, deemed the “Queen of Southern Cuisine” (Southern Living, 12/20/2018). Nathalie Dupree is a storyteller, and in celebration of her 80th birthday in December 2019, she shares her favorite culinary stories, which trace her journey from a budding cook for her college friends, through her years as a restaurant cook and cooking instructor. Her activist spirit, humor, feisty personality, and authoritative knowledge of cooking make this a must-have cookbook for everyone who has watched her on TV, read her articles in magazines and newspapers, or invoked her name in a conversation about Southern food.
Ted Kennedy Watson's Guide To Stylish Entertaining
Stylish entertaining doesn’t require perfection. It’s not about flawlessly polished tableware or professionally arranged florals—it’s about the small, creative touches that make each event unique. This uniquely informative entertaining/hosting guide combines stylishly practical advice along with gorgeous photos as well as personal essays & ideas from tastemaker, award-winning retailer, best-selling author and daily blogger Ted Kennedy Watson. Like a trusted friend, he invites you into his homes and shares his secrets honed over the years that are sure to bring you much success and as he would stress, happiness, as you host your next gatherings.
Open Faced
Toasted tradition gets a modern makeover. Open Faced crosses international borders to bring fresh, creative flavors to your toasted breakfast, brunch, lunch, or dinner. Discover butterbrote, montaditos, smørrebrød, and other open-faced sandwiches that capture the essence of Germany, Spain, Scandinavia, France, Italy, and more. Go beyond butter with inspired flavors like:
- Provençal Tuna and Vegetable Salad
- Cider and Honey-Scented Onion Marmalade, Cabrales Cheese, and Hazelnuts
- Curried Egg Salad with Mango Chutney, Raisins, and Cashews
- Meatballs with Beet and Apple Salad
Flatbread
Timeless staples from around the world meet new, innovative flavor combinations in sixty delicious savory, sweet, and easy-to-eat recipes featuring dip-able, delectable flatbreads. Anni Daulter’s Flatbread: Toppings, Dips, and Drizzles takes a fresh approach to serving these staples with a collection of recipes, including various types of flatbreads, that tempt the taste buds with dips, drizzles, and creative toppings to make appetizers, main courses, and desserts.
Bacon, Beans, and Beer
65 hearty recipes using bacon, beans, or beer as the star ingredient: perfect for tailgating, backyard barbecues, camping, or man-cave food. Bacon, Beans & Beer is chock-full of delicious, easy-to-make recipes including appetizers and snacks, soups and sandwiches, salads and sides, easy meals, and even some treats. From sweets like Beer Caramel Corn and Bacon Peanut Butter Cookies to classics like Bacon & Shrimp Po’ Boys and Kentucky Hot Browns and Beer Bacon Mac & Cheese, Bacon, Beans & Beer will satisfy the hungriest of diners.
The Forager's Pantry
A comprehensive and easy guide to bringing wild food indoors and new life to your cooking. Many home cooks want to experiment with wild foods and explore new flavors, but don’t know where to start—The Forager’s Pantry was written for you. This comprehensive and accessible book by Ellen Zachos takes readers through spices and herbs, flowers, fruit, greens, nuts and seeds, tubes and roots, and mushrooms, showing how some of the best ingredients come from nature itself.
MaryJane's Cast Iron Kitchen
Whether we’re urban or suburban, straight-up city or downright country, cast-iron cookware holds a special place in our hearts. For generations, it’s the one thing that has never changed. Or worn out. With its rich history and formidable staying power, who among us doesn’t have at least one of Grandma’s skillets? Not only is it cheaper than its modern-day, fancy-pants counterparts, it’s non-toxic. And if your great-granmama were around to utter admonitions, she’d tell you a thing or two about proper kitchenware (and manners), and then hand you a cast-iron griddle and show you how to make a mess of biscuits the likes of which you’ve never tasted before.
Empanadas
Donna Kelly’s newest cookbook is packed with over 70 recipes for doughs, flavorful fillings, and sauces to make tasty fried or baked empanadas. Donna Kelly turns her culinary attention to those fabulous little turnovers known as empanadas in her newest cookbook. Empanadas has 3 dough variations plus a shortcut option using tortillas for either frying or baking the handheld pies. Kelly also includes over 60 recipes for both savory and sweet fillings and 7 bonus sauce and drizzle offerings.
Sauce Up Your Boards
Elevate your boards and meals with over 250 easy-to-make condiment recipes that add a burst of flavor and a lot of style to what you serve. Sauce Up Your Board by Hillary Davis is a must-have cookbook of over 250 super-simple, healthy recipes for condiments to complement everything from brunch to buffets, family dinners, barbeques, picnics, holidays, and special occasions presented in a chic and sophisticated way.
Beach Cocktails
Vacation is calling! Create your own island paradise with this guide to inspired tropical cocktails from well-known mixologists and the perfect snacks to pair them with. Allyson Reedy’s Beach Cocktails is a collection of 75 recipes for classic tiki drinks, frozen cocktails, tropical mocktails, and a bonus chapter of nibbles. The kinds of umbrella-adorned drinks that scream the vacation-in-a-glass mindset we could all use a little more of.
S’mores
Everyone’s favorite campfire treat gets a makeover. No campsite? No problem! Author Lisa Adams gives suggestions for making s’mores on a barbecue, in the oven, over a stovetop, and on the hearth of your living room fireplace. S’mores shares over 60 ways to make unique and scrumptious treats this camping season. Enjoy the Banana Caramel, the Strawberry Shortcake, the Hazelnut Raspberry Brownie, the Biscotti Latte, and many, many s’more.
Dutch Oven Camp Cooking
Whether at your lake campsite, up at the mountain cabin, boondocking in a national park, or in a tent in your own backyard, these 65 hearty recipes for cast iron Dutch ovens make cooking with coals a delicious experience. Packed with 65 easy, yet mouthwatering recipes featuring sweet and savory breads, breakfast, main dishes, sides, soups, sauces, and desserts, Dutch Oven Camp Cooking will quickly become a family favorite “go-to” when the crew has worked up a cowboy-size appetite while camping and playing in the outdoors.
Hungry Campers
Whether cooking for just yourself, your immediate family, or a group of friends, the 80 recipes in this cookbook are a must-have for planning your next camping adventure. Includes menu plans, camp-cooking hints, and equipment needs. The last couple of years have seen a renewed enthusiasm for camping and enjoying time outdoors. And one of the best things about spending the night under the stars is eating meals around a campfire.
Vintage Camper Trailer Cookbook
Vintage Camper Trailer Cookbook is perfect for fans of vintage camper trailers, camping, and outdoor cooking. Vintage camper trailers are a unique symbol of midcentury America. Vintage Camper Trailer Cookbook captures the nostalgia of the time along with the fun of vintage campers while offering more than 140 tasty, family-friendly recipes for outdoor cooking.
The Gingerbread Party
Courtney Dial Whitmore’s latest is a Christmas entertaining book that offers readers a charming collection of gingerbread-themed projects and recipes. Each chapter features creative ideas for festive parties, gingerbread tutorials and crafts, and coordinating recipes all centered around the warm, nostalgic appeal of gingerbread. The book features a range of unique party ideas, including the author’s beloved children’s Pink Gingerbread House Tea Party (using graham crackers), an adult gingerbread house decorating party, and a Gingerbread Train Party designed especially for boys.
Italian Cookies
This definitive Italian cookie cookbook has 100 authentic recipes, including baking hints and techniques, plus regional stories and a list of Italian bakeries. alian Cookies: Authentic Recipes and Sweet Stories from Every Region is a beautiful, comprehensive guided tour of Italy’s regions by cookies and cookie stories. With recipes steeped in history and tradition, the book capitalizes on two major continuing food trends: our love of everything cookies and our love of everything Italian.
Heirloom Italian
Filled with 125 delicious recipes passed down through generations of Sicilian grandmothers, Heirloom Italian offers easy-to-make and substantial dishes with over 50 full-color photographs, including images of old family photos, notes, and letters. Chapters include breakfast, appetizers, soup, salad, pasta, sauces, mains, vegetables, and desserts, with a special chapter focused on holidays.
Comemos
Comemos (let’s eat or we eat) is Alejandra Graf calling her family, friends, and readers to the table. Her fresh, contemporary, and vegan Mexican recipes, often with dairy and meat options, and warm writing style, make sure that everyone is welcome and well fed. many home cooks, Graf was faced with a dilemma: she is vegan, but the rest of her family is not. Her challenge was to create delicious, healthy, easy recipes that would appeal to vegans and omnivores alike.
Alpine Cocktails
The mountains are calling! Après-ski isn’t just a post-run ritual—it’s a state of mind.
Allyson Reedy’s Alpine Cocktails: Pours, Drinks, Sips, and Bites brings the magic of après-ski straight to your glass. Inside you’ll find 75 cocktails, mocktails, spritzes, and steaming hot sippers designed to transport you to snowy summits, crackling fires, and the cozy glow of your favorite mountain lodge—no matter your current altitude.
Simple Pleasures
Sizzling bacon in the morning. A perfectly ripe avocado. Freshly baked bread out of the oven
Pomodoro simmering on the stove…these are just a few of life’s simple pleasures. A few things you will be sure to find: lots of butter, crème fraîche in desserts, juicy ripe tomatoes everywhere, mounds of parmesan cheese, blankets of sauces, layers of texture and flavor, and the perfect mix of indulgence + feel-good foods to nourish you inside and out.
Modern Creole
With approximately 120 food and cocktail recipes, and vibrant, dynamic culinary photography that captures the chef’s bad boy rock-and-roll style, Eric Cook’s new book, with a foreword by Gordon Ramsay, Modern Creole: A Taste of New Orleans Culture and Cuisine, winds through Southern, Cajun, and Creole genres fulfilling home cooks’ desire for dishes that are special, yet accessible and straightforward enough for an everyday meal, yet impressive enough for company or the holiday table.
Cutting Up in the Kitchen
Chef Duane Nutter is a storyteller with his Southern-fusion cuisine, his comfortable yet informative writing style, and his humor. Cutting Up In the Kitchen: Food and Fun from Southern National’s Chef Duane Nutter offers more than 100 Southern-leaning recipes composed of familiar ingredients that are often infused with international flavors. While widely praised for his cooking prowess by the likes of the James Beard Foundation, the New York Times, and the FAB (Airport Food and Beverage) Awards.
The Art of the Board
With over 75 seasonally inspired, approachable snack boards, recipes, and cocktails, The Art of the Board has all you need for fun, stress-free entertaining year-round. Packed with tips, tricks, and ideas, you’ll be inspired to whip up your next snack board masterpiece—whether it’s creatively plating your Thanksgiving leftovers to impress your family or wowing your friends with your knowledge of fancy cheese and charcuterie.
Mushroom Gastronomy
Whether you forage for elusive mushrooms in the woods, at your local grocery, or farmers market, or are new to cooking with them, Mushroom Gastronomy is the perfect cookbook that will prepare you for an exciting culinary journey into the world of edible mushrooms. Stunning photographs introduce each variety, including their unique nutritional values, ideal cooking methods, culinary tips, and flavor pairings, making this book a go-to resource for anyone interested in cooking with mushrooms.
Wild Sugar
Lindsey Johnson, along with Chase Reynolds Ewald, often find their cooking and baking muse from life in the West. Flavor profiles, ingredients, and artistic decorating ideas are all sparked by the romantic and rustic western mountains. In Wild Sugar: Sweet Treats Inspired by the Mountain West, Johnson teaches you how to create amazing desserts via more than 50 recipes plus additional frostings, fillings, and toppings that are based on seasonal ingredients. These recipes are designed for the home baker, and her detailed instructions along with decorating tips and hints, will have you serving showcase cookies, pies, cakes, and sweets in no time.
French from the Market
This newest cookbook from Hillary Davis focuses on the best of traditional French cooking—provincial cuisine based on produce and foods fresh from the market, simply prepared, and delicious for everyday dining at home. Hillary Davis shows us in French from the Market that French food isn’t always haute cuisine. Traditional, daily French cooking is provincial and farm-driven. It is also an art, that uses the freshest and finest ingredients available from gardens, markets, and local vendors to put nourishing meals on the table. And, as Davis point out, French home cooking is not hard.
Homemade-ish
Homemade-ish is a sassy, no-guilt cookbook, with more than 100 quick-and-easy recipes, that support busy folks wanting to provide healthy home-cooked meals to their family. Creating and enjoying home-cooked food is time well spent, but sometimes we’re busy—almost too busy—to be bothered with the task of cooking, with the work of it all. How do we reconcile the impact and importance of providing home-cooked meals with the ever-lurking busyness that threatens to send us dashing to our doors to answer the call of our latest food deliveries? What do we do about this?
Brunch Season
Brunch is a lovely way to celebrate a meal with friends and family, and a great way to make any midday or mid-week dining special. The recipes in Brunch Season: A Year of Delicious Mornings from the Buttermilk Kitchen include both sweet and savory dishes, drawing ideas from Buttermilk Kitchen breakfast favorites, and adding seasonal soups and salads, as well as drinks. Chef Suzanne Vizethann’s fresh farm-to-table approach to this cookbook, divided into spring, summer, fall, and winter chapters, reflects her commitment to providing high-quality meals made with ripe, flavorful ingredients.
Farmhouse Weeknights
Melissa Bahen offers a compilation of time-tested, wholesome comfort-food recipes straight from the kitchen in her farmhouse to your table. This cookbook focuses on fresh ingredients and making meals from scratch, but it also embraces smart shortcuts and time-saving tips that will help readers get dinner on the table with less work. Every recipe in the book carries the promise of having dinner ready in under an hour (except for slow-cooker recipes that only require prep time and are then hands-off all day), comes with serving suggestions to make a complete meal, and has a list of time savers.
Farmhouse Weekends
Prepare meals and experiences to enjoy in the easy companionship of family and friends—everything you need to create the perfect farmhouse weekend, no matter where you live, is found within these pages. Each chapter provides recipes inspired by author Melissa Bahen’s weekend jaunts in the country: apple cider donuts and white bean chili after a day of picking fresh apples in the fall; buttery cobbler full of ripe, summer berries after a trip to the farmers’ market; hot, flaky biscuits slathered with butter and homemade strawberry freezer jam to start out a spring day. You’ll find brunch, dinner, and dessert recipes for spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
The Heirloomed Kitchen
Ashley Schoenith’s The Heirloomed Kitchen: Made-from-Scratch Recipes to Gather Around for Generations takes us back to our grandmother’s kitchen with enticing aromas and made-from-scratch meals cooked with love. This carefully curated cookbook with nostalgic-style photography beautifully presents the food while also showcasing heirloom cookware, serving vessels and utensils, and the gracious gentility of Southern hospitality. The recipes are slow-paced and packed with family memories taken from those splattered, handwritten recipe cards passed down from mother to child to grandchild.
Southern Lights
Rooted in the idea that great Southern food doesn’t have to be heavy or unhealthy, this book offers a fresh take on Southern-style cooking for the modern home cook. With more than 100 recipes, it reimagines classic Southern dishes using simpler techniques and lighter ingredients. The result is a hassle-free approach that proves less can often be more. Through a health- and lifestyle-conscious lens, beloved Southern favorites are made more accessible without sacrificing flavor or quality.
Magnolias Classic Southern Cuisine
Magnolias Classic Southern Cuisine features tried-and-true recipes from the previous three restaurant cookbooks as well as new interpretations to offer a complete repertoire of Magnolias fine dining. Magnolias Classic Southern Cuisine: Collected Recipes from the Heart of Charleston represents the 30-plus years since Magnolias hit the restaurant scene. This cookbook includes more than 100 recipes, from pantry items to poultry and meats, and everything in between.
Wild Bread
Is the world ready to rethink bread making?
MaryJane Butters thinks so. Wild Bread reimagines sourdough with a quick, easy approach to naturally fermented bread using a wide range of flours—from gluten-free to heirloom whole wheat. Her simple method makes it possible to bake hundreds of healthier, flavorful loaves without commercial yeast, unlocking better nutrition through slow, wild fermentation.
Camp Cooking
The National Museum of Forest Service History presents a charming cookbook that celebrates decades of camp cooking by countless Forest Service agents in the field. Featuring legendary recipes for Dutch oven meals, open-fire dishes, and other tasty outdoor specialties used daily in the early days of the Forest Service, Camp Cooking has dozens of recipes, photos, and anecdotes that tell the whole history of these brave and hardy individuals.
How To Win A Cowboy's Heart Cookbook
This fun cookbook is full of charming cooking tips and advice for catching your man’s heart—through his stomach. The belly-filling recipes will satisfy the hardest working ranch hands, cowboys, farmers, and western-loving city folks. The recipes are organized into meals from the first date and “Hand Holdin’ in the Parlor” to when it’s time for “Impressin’ the In-laws.” The shopping list for a well-stocked western pantry will set you up for serving tasty grinds such as Sweet Potato Pancakes, All-Day Red Beans, Smothered Yardbird, Cowboy Cottage Pie, and Stewed Fruit with Sugar Dumplings when that dinner bell rings.
Farmhouse Christmas
CHRISTMAS. The very word breathes magic into the air and fills you with warmth and joy. Christmas at the farmhouse has all the wonder of a classic Christmas, plus extra doses of coziness and charm. Think festive brunches, family gatherings around a table laden with the most delicious foods, party appetizers, holiday punches and hot drinks, and, of course, cookies, sweet treats, and seasonal desserts.