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Feastivals Cooks at Home

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It's a "Keeper" and you should just leave it in your kitchen so you won't have to go to and from the book shelf. The "Teachers Tips are amazing! It's like she is in the kitchen with you and can read your mind. Try the Mussel Soup aith Aioli and Saffron. Wonderful!

I was so excited to get this book as I just planted (on purpose) dandelions in my garden. Page 57 tells me how to prepare Pissenlits! Hooray. Then I saw her rye bread recipe and don't you know I had just bought rye flour!

I am really loving Feastivals Cooks at Home! The instructions are so clear that I am having great success with every recipe I try.

The food is delicious, as well. You should really get this book!

If you could have only one cookbook, this would be an exceptional choice for beginning cooks. Feastivals Cooks At Home is filled with over 120 superbly written recipes that are easy to follow. The author includes variations of many recipes which encourages your own creativity. There are simple preparation ideas and each recipe denotes whether you may make it ahead and what kitchen tools are required. You also get to know the author with some anecdotes about her friendships and the origin of recipes.

"Feastivals Cooks at Home" is packed with great recipes offered with a simple directness that is a real blessing for those of us who are technically challenged in the kitchen. The book offers an admirable range of formal and informal (try the orange chicken wings!), complicated and simple. And every dish that I've tried has turned out great. Good design, and very good writing make this cookbook a "must have" for any kitchen.

LOVE Chef June Jacobs' new cookbook! The recipes are delicious, the Teachers' Tips are invaluable, and the Wine Tips are exactly what I have wished for. The book is a compact 7 x 9 inches, spiral-bound, perfect for propping up on the kitchen counter while in use, and perfect for wrapping and mailing. The range of recipes in 192 pages is outstanding, everything you could possibly want to prepare--appetizers, soups, main dishes, desserts (GLORIOUS desserts), THE WORKS. And this book has CHARM. One of its most delightful features is the anecdotal material that Chef June shares about family and friends who inspired these recipes. This is a cookbook you can curl up with OUTSIDE the kitchen and read for FUN. I felt as if I were meeting the best of Charles Dickens' characters in this wonderful cookbook. In sum, the recipes are to SWOON over, Chef June's enthusiasm for the art of cooking and for these great recipes is contagious, I am thoroughly enjoying trying these recipes and sharing them with my friends and family. And I know you will, too!