Books by Sheila Lukins

Filled with forty-six festive menus that are perfect for a variety of holidays or special occasions, a new cookbook by the author of The Silver Palate Cookbook includes 350 delicious, foolproof recipes that include such dishes as Maple Ginger Turkey with Cornbread Chorizo Stuffing, Orange Sorbet, and and many more.

In one spectacular volume, Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins celebrate the tastes, ingredients, techniques, and dishes that comprise the best of our cuisine, in all its abundant pleasure and variety. Over 30 chapters include 875 recipes, techniques, charts and tips, microwave miracles, and illustrations. "The basic kitchen handbook for the '90s".--Philadelphia Inquirer. Illustrations throughout.

A culinary genius who helped change the way America eats, Sheila Lukins is the cook behind the phenomenal success of the Silver Palate cookbooks and The New Basics Cookbook, with over 5 million copies in print. Now Sheila embarks on her first solo journey, visiting 33 countries on a cook's tour of cuisines, ingredients, and tastes. The result is pure alchemy -- a new kind of American cookbook that reinterprets the best of the world's food in 450 dazzling, original recipes. In addition, there are new wines to discover, menus to experiment with, ingredients to learn, spice cabinets to raid -- and travelogues to savor. Main selection of Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books, and Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service, and selection of the Quality Paperback Book Club.

A special anniversary edition of the classic cookbook provides hundreds of recipes for appetizers, soups, pasta, main dishes, vegetables, salads, breads, and desserts, and includes tips on planning menus and entertaining, from Manhattan's celebrated gourmet food shop. Simultaneous.

The exciting sequel to The Silver Palate Cookbook, this 450-recipe collection--acclaimed by critics nationwide--transforms any occasion into something magical. Winner of a 1986 Duncan Hines IACP Cookbook Award.

Identifying thirty-two of our favorite foods, from roast chicken and burgers to mashed potatoes and cakes, a innovative cookbook presents ten variations of each food in a collection of more than three hundred recipes, many contributed by such leading chefs as Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Tom Colicchio, Anthony Bourdain, and others. Simultaneous. 100,000 first printing.

A great, friendly, indispensable book, the "U.S.A. Cookbook" is Sheila Lukins rediscovering, heralding, transforming, and celebrating American cooking. The co-author of The Silver Palate cookbooks and The New Basics Cookbook and author of All Around the Worm Cookbook, Ms. Lukins now turns to her greatest love -- American food. After traveling across the country for three years, Sheila set to work tasting, interpreting, and making magic in over 600 recipes. Here are Mashed Yukon Golds, a Stovetop Clambake, Vegetable Jambalaya, Bing Cherry Chutney, Peachy Keen Pie. Quesadillas with duck and caramelized onions, a burger stuffed with Maytag blue cheese, gazpacho made with both fresh and roasted vegetables, crab cakes sumptuous with lobster meat, orange zest, and mace. It's a star-spangled celebration. "An enthusiastic, up-scale sampling of regional food just right for cooks looking to their own heritage for fresh culinary inspiration". -- Publishers Weekly. Main selection of Book-of-the-Month Club's Good Cook Club.