Party Girl Cookbook: Your Complete Guide to Throwing a Smashing Bash, with Ideas for Themes, Invitations, Costumes, and More Than 150 Recipes
Author: Nina Lesowitz
Used as a step-by-step guide or as a personal manifesto for living large, "The Party Girl Cookbook" includes ideas for invitations, party favors, decorations, music, games, costumes, and more than 150 party recipes.
BUST Magazine
This is a great book to have, and perhaps an even greater book to give as a gift to one of your girlfriends, so that she can throw the parties suggested herein and invite you to come.
Book review: Gestão de Operações
Itty Bitty Kitchen Handbook: Everything You Need to Know About Setting Up and Cooking in the Most Ridiculously Small Kitchen in the World--Your Own
Author: Justin Spring
College students and recent grads, downsizing empty-nesters and owners of boats and RVs all have one thing in common: their kitchens are too small and often unusable. At last, here is a guide to turning that supersmall kitchenette into a full-service culinary oasis.
Author Justin Spring, who has written for The New York Times Home section and Martha Stewart Living, has transformed his own itty-bitty kitchen into a model of practical style. With his irreverent handbook, savvy cooks will learn to purge their kitchens of unnecessary items and maximize limited shelf and countertop space. They will also explore the most cook-friendly ways of setting up a kitchen; learn sneaky strategies for seemingly effortless entertaining; and explore the many challenges (and triumphs) of small-kitchen cleanup time. Along with suggestions for the best small-kitchen cooking equipment (and shopping guides for locating it), Spring--who learned many of his small-kitchen strategies aboard a family sailboat--looks at unconventional but highly effective ways of shopping, cooking and storing food in limited spaces. Forty classic recipes that require minimal preparation and cleanup--like Mom's Sunday Pot Roast, Toaster Oven "Fried" Chicken, and Extreme Brownies--will give you an entirely new way of looking at (and cooking in) your small kitchen.
Thirty charming illustrations add to the book's appeal as an all-purpose gift for housewarmings, graduations, weddings, and more.
Publishers Weekly
A resourceful cook will tell you that almost anything (except perhaps, a 25-pound turkey) can be cooked in a small kitchen. But not every cook thinks such a feat is possible, and for him or her, this book will shed some very useful light. A Manhattan apartment-dweller and art historian, Spring lays out the basics of small-kitchen cookery: order, naturally, is of utmost importance. Think like a small-sailboat galley slave (the author grew up on a 36-foot catamaran where the kitchen consisted of a camp stove, ice chest and bucket) and optimize space, he says, by, for example, keeping dish cupboards and cutlery drawers as close as possible to the sink to create economy of motion while washing dishes. In chatty and fun prose, Spring covers every aspect of cooking in a small space, from stocking it with the right ingredients and tools (with suggestions of how much cutlery and utensils you need) to understanding which appliances are really necessary (toaster ovens can be terrific but aren't indispensable, while blenders can do the work of mixers and food processors, making them particularly valuable). Recipes are creative and well within the capabilities of basic cooks; they include Toaster-Oven Meatloaf and Saut ed Cutlets Marsala. (Mar.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
Spring writes frequently about home design for the New York Times and Martha Stewart Living, among other publications. Now he has his own "itty bitty" kitchen in Manhattan, but many of his earliest culinary experiments took place in the tiny galley kitchen of his family's sailboat. Although he provides 100 simple but tasty recipes, it is Spring's advice on how to organize your kitchen-or perhaps your life-that the majority of readers, no matter the size of their kitchen, will find most valuable. He includes a wide range of useful tips and suggestions along with sources for any organizational need from storage systems to oven liners. And his understated and witty writing style makes the information-packed text-from "The Kitchen Purge" to "Cleanup Time-A Magnificent Obsession"-fun to read. Highly recommended. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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