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Barefoot Contessa Parties! Ideas and Recipes for Easy Parties That Are Really Fun (精装)
by Ina Garten
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Barefoot Contessa Series, Cookbook, Original books |
| Market price: ¥ 348.00
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¥ 338.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
The easiest parties are usually the best - Barefoot Contessa Parties! will ensure that your next party is a fabulous one, regardless of your guest list. |
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Jennifer Phillipps (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
I have been a fan of Ina Garten's since I started watching her Barefoot Contessa cooking programmes here in New Zealand.
Ina Garten seems to have a genuine joy in the cooking and preparing of food for others that is contagious. She puts such a lot of love into her recipes and this is then expressed by the enthusiasm she shares in her recipe books.
I am therefore very happy with my purchase of her Parties cookbook as it adds still further to the other books I have from her pen. The recipes are simple yet sophisticated and the presentation in the book of all that goes into preparation for a party, the shortcuts and the pre-planning all offer the reader useful insights for taking on parties themselves.
I would definitely recommend this book. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
I have seen Ina Garten on the Food Network and liked her simple and elegant foods. Her book is just as wonderful as her show. Her recipes ARE simple to follow, each with fabulous pictures. They are elegant and great tasting. She supplies an entire menu for each "party." I have made several recipes for friends and each has gotten rave reviews. If I have one small criticism. it is that not all recipes have the amount of servings supplied. But overall, this is a wonderful asset to any kitchen!
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
I class myself as a good cook when I follow a recipe and it turns out well. I love to entertain but have generally ended up in a sweat and not really enjoying the event itself. Then I discovered Nigella Lawson and Ina Garten.
Barefoot Contessa Parties is for the woman who wants to relax and enjoy the party when cooking for other people. She has a busy life and cooking is somewhat of a hobby.
Barefoot Contessa Parties and Nigella Lawson's How To Eat (plus a double oven) gave me more confidence to cook for others and experiment with my own ingredients to adapt recipes than any of your Joy of Cooking or famous chef books. My kitchen is clean and tidy when guests arrive (a big plus for me being a messy cook) and the food is great. I also had dinner at a friend's house some months ago when the most delicious lamb was served. I've long envied the way it was cooked to discover the recipe in Barefoot Contessa Parties!
On another note - there have been mixed reports about the beef tenderloin recipe. It worked for me. Perfectly. Yes, the oven smoked but the meat was superb and my guests were very complimentary. This will now be one of my staple dishes when entertaining.
Please try Nigella Lawson's How to Eat or any book by Nigella. She too is an advocate for keeping it simple and being with your guests. She's also famous for the quote "after all, it's only dinner". |
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Leigh Baird (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
I fell in love with this book when I first got it. I love the simplicity of the recipes. I don't have the first Barefoot Contessa book yet, I have my mother's copy and I am hoping she forgets I have it. I recommend this book highly. I guess I must mention my favorite cookbook is The Ultimate Southern Living Cookbook. It's only my favorite because it is all purpose and has how to make just about everything in it - it's a great reference cookbook.
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Gina (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
Ina's new book is just wonderful, it is full of beautiful pictures and great easy recipes. I own her first book, so when I found out she had a new one out I just had to have it. Her recipes use fresh ingredients and the taste and results are just sublime!! The Lemon Cake recipe is divine as well as her Pasta, Peas and Pesto salad. The layout is easy to read, and she has little stories interweaved throughout so you feel like she is talking to you. I just love her books, I keep them on my kitchen counter along with other favorites. I hear she is hard at work on her next creation. You will not be disappointed with her cookbooks!!
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J. Zazczyk (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
I love to cook and bake but I run screaming from complicated recipes. This cookbook contains simple recipes for really great-tasting food. It is uncomplicated and the adjoining photographs are simple and elegant. Never have I found a cookbook where page after page I have found recipes that I actually want to try.
I made the ceasar salad the first day I bought the book, the sour cream coffee cake the second. Both turned out fantastic! Tomorrow I shall conquer the delicious-looking rugelach.
The book is touted for parties but don't let that fool you. These are great recipes for simple family dinners as well as large parties. The book is also sprinkled with Ina Garten's advice and past experiences.
I thank Ina Garten for this wonderful new cookbook - but moreover, my husband thanks her! |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
Sometimes it's hard to plan a get-together where people enter a room and enjoy themselves with good food and drink and fine conversation. Authors such as Charles Dickens and Jane Austen wrote extensively about people who got together at parties where foods and drinks were served, and wonderful conversation ensued; perhaps that's what every host and hostess would love to hear at their parties. Reading books such as Barefoot Contessa Parties! and The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook make me grateful that someone like Ina Garten took the time to figure out how an average homemaker can create nice parties where the food is not only delicious but comfortable to assemble and enjoy with friends. Before I read the book, it wasn't easy even to prepare a brunch for eight, but with sensible ideas, I can offer guests something different without trying the "omelettes for individuals", as Ina once did. Ina's Chinese Chicken Salad with the delicious peanut sauce is already in my refrigerator, as is the noodle pudding (rich and delicious). I loved the idea of pre-oiling and pre-heating the pan before creating homemade potato chips, and the Asian Grilled Salmon was a winner. Just think what 19th century authors would have accomplished if they were privy to your parties... Thanks to you and your terrific staff! What would I do without you? Sincerely, Robin |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
She's done it again! This is a beautiful book just as her first one was. I've cooked nearly every recipe in the first Barefoot Contessa cookbook and all of them work! They're delicious. The kind of recipes that you cook for years and years and not just because it looks interesting. I ran out to the bookstore yesterday and bought this book and the recipes look fabulous. Her commentaries are also entertaining to read and helpful. And, I can't believe it, but she included a recipe for a lemon cake in this new book that I noticed in one of the pictures from her first cookbook. I was positive that it wasn't worth chasing after when I saw the picture but it was such a treat to find it in this new one. It'll be the first thing I try!
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