Celebrate or Iced Tea

Celebrate!

Author: Sheila Lukins

Time to celebrate! With one purpose only-to bring family and friends together-Sheila Lukins presents Celebrate!, a full-color extravaganza of a book with 46 festive menus, 350 foolproof, with-a-twist recipes in the Silver Palate style, 200 color photographs, and throughout, the passion that's made her one of America's most creative cooks and best-loved food writers.

Here are menus to re-energize traditional holidays-for Thanksgiving serve Maple Ginger Turkey with a piquant Cornbread Chorizo Stuffing. Menus that will turn impromptu gatherings into yearly events-a hearty selection of bowl foods for Super Bowl Sunday, a red-white-and-blue menu for a Memorial Day barbecue, an easy weekday Cozy Dinner for Two. And menus that will inspire whole new reasons to throw a party-The Big Raise (featuring a Blushing Lobster Cocktail), When Spring Has Sprung, The First Summer Tomatoes, a Celebrate Morocco Dinner with Moorish Carrot Soup, Lamb Tagine, Orange Flower Sorbet. Celebrate! is a blueprint for joy, making any time the right time to celebrate and showing just how to pull it off.

Publishers Weekly

Celebrated cookbook writer Lukins (co-author, The Silver Palate and The New Basics) delivers a glossy full-color volume encompassing almost all the possible celebrations in life. Following the year from a New Year's Day Breakfast through an Academy Awards Bash to Chanukah and Christmas, she then continues with the myriad of life-affirming occasions-new job, graduation, bridal shower. Each celebration is prefaced with a menu and description of the dishes, often with a suggestion for presentation that is sure to enhance the occasion. The recipes vary in complexity, but the clear instructions and the sprinkling of helpful tips put them within the reach of most cooks. As in her other books, Lukins delivers a wide range of delightful dishes drawing on modern, fashionable, traditional and international inspirations, from the simple yet effective Summer Corn Soup (Midsummer Night's feast), with its unusual use of lemongrass, to the appropriately named Devil's Food Cake for Halloween and a Luscious Leek Frittata that is sure to perk up any Sunday morning. For "The Big Raise," Lukins recommends an appetizer of Blushing Lobster Cocktail and a main course of Rich Man's Burgers with B arnaise Mayonnaise-served with Champagne Pauillac and the music of Dean Martin. In the end, home cooks won't be surprised to find Lukins high standard of the dishes and a nice variety of recipes. (Nov.) Forecast: The Silver Palate Cookbook is a standard on many people's shelves and with Workman's push (150,000 first printing and 25-city tour), this title will definitely make a splash. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

What People Are Saying

"What a lovely philosophy of life. Every day and every occasion is worthy of a celebratory meal—I can't imagine a better way to stay positive than by eating the results of these creative and delicious recipes."
—Daniel Boulud, author of Letters to a Young Chef

Table of Contents:

	Introduction: Let's Celebrate!	IX
	A year of celebrations
	Ring in the New Year	2
	Super Bowls	14
	Valentines Served with Love	26
	St. Patrick's Day Feast	34
	An Academy Awards Bash	44
	Shella's Seder	54
	When Spring Has Sprung	66
	Easter Sunday Dinner	76
	Greek Easter with the Kambanises	84
	A Run for the Roses	96
	Mother's Day Luncheon	106
	Fire Up the Grill	114
	Father's Day	122
	Bang-Up Fourth of July	130
	Glorious Summertime	138
	A Midsummer Night's Feast	148
	Labor Day Picnic	156
	An Old-Fashioned Halloween	164
	Thanksgiving Dinner	172
	Chanukah, Festival of Lights	184
	Celebrate the Winter Hearth	194
	The Night Before Christmas	202
	An Extremely Merry Christmas	212
	A Toast to the New Year	222
	Celebrating our lives
	Congratulations on a New Job	234
	Saturday Night with Friends	240
	Plump Chicken for Two	248
	A Springtime Bridal Shower	256
	Celebrate Italy	266
	Graduation Honors	276
	Celebrate India	284
	Anytime Sunday Brunch	294
	Pool Party	302
	Fresh Blueberry Breakfast	314
	A Big Family Reunion	320
	A Birthday Bash	334
	Celebrate a Ripe Tomato	342
	Celebrate France	350
	New Cheese & Fruit Collection	358
	A Gracious Housewarming	364
	A Cozy Dinner for Two	372
	Celebrate Morocco	378
	The Big Raise	388
	The Basics	396
	Sources	404
	Bibliography	405
	Conversion Tables	406
	Index	407

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Iced Tea: 50 Recipes for Refreshing Tisanes, Infusions, Coolers, and Spiked Teas

Author: Fred Thompson

Nothing beats a frosty glass of home-brewed iced tea. And now there's no excuse not to enjoy it year-round, with everything from classics to infusions to spritzers to offbeat and cocktail teas.