The $50 Dinner Party: 26 Dinner Parties that Won't Break Your Bank, Your Back, Or Your Schedule - Softcover

Sampson, Sally

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9780684842288: The $50 Dinner Party: 26 Dinner Parties that Won't Break Your Bank, Your Back, Or Your Schedule

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ISBN 10: 0684842289 ISBN 13: 9780684842288

Publisher: Fireside, 1998

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Coming to the rescue of entertainers everywhere who want to spend more time mingling with guests than minding the stove, an experienced chef offers complete menu plans that will help readers prepare and create delicious meals without knocking themselves out. Original. 25,000 first printing.

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Review:

The subtitle of Sally Samson's The $50 Dinner Party astutely sums up the book: Twenty-Six Dinner Parties That Won't Break Your Bank, Your Back, or Your Schedule. And boy, does she deliver. This is a no-frills cookbook, as spare as you can go, and is a sleek beauty as a result. Sampson opens with a chapter of little bites and dips, then it's right into the main menus, with detailed discussions on each of the 26 dinners, plus sidebars of information for clever timesaving ideas. A presumption is made that you are already comfortable in the kitchen, that you speak the language of recipes, and that you know how to time a meal to get the food out and onto the table when your guests are ready to sit down. Sampson leaves the marching orders to you. Her job--and she's brilliant at it--is stimulating your planning imagination with a lush array of possibilities for delicious dinners for six that she feels will come in under $50, sans wine, coffee, and tea.

A couple of wonderful meal examples: Roasted Chicken Breasts with Dried Figs, Apricots, and Prunes; French Bread; Mixed Green Salad with Red Onions and Toasted Pine Nuts; and Rice Pudding. Or, Grilled, Marinated Flank Steak with Soy, Sherry, and Dijon; Potato Cake with Garlic and Olive Oil; Salad of Arugula, Avocado, and Mango; and Cheesecake with Raspberry Sauce.

Sally Sampson deserves a medal for taking the worry and guesswork out of dinner entertaining, all while watching the purse strings. --Schuyler Ingle

About the Author:

Sally Sampson is the coauthor of The Olives Table and The Figs Table; Recipes from the Night Kitchen: A Practical Guide to Spectacular Soups, Stews, and Chilies; Diet Workshop's Recipes for Healthy Living and Chic Simple Cooking. She writes for The Boston Phoenix and The Boston Globe, among other publications, and has contributed to Bon App�tit and Food & Wine. She lives with her family in Boston.

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