Yet another potluck invitation in the mailbox? This one-stop collection is the antidote to the what-should-I-bring woes. Organized seasonally and focusing on fresh ingredients (with lots of veggie options), THE GOURMET POTLUCK gives cooking for groups style, panache, and inspiration. From Super Bowl parties and summer barbecues to birthdays and bridal showers, catering vet Beth Hensperger dishes up ideas aplenty for every potluck occasion.The definitive guide to being the star of every potluck, with straightforward, sophisticated recipes scaled to serve 10 to 16 people.Features more than 50 main and side dish recipes and 20 full-color photographs.Each recipe includes prep timeline, serving dishes and utensils needed, transportation notes, and reheating requirements.Reviews"The definitive guide to being the star chef at the next meal cooked by committee."-Cookbook Digest
Beth Hensperger, a New Jersey-born who now considers herself a California native, has been educating, writing, and demo-lecturing about the art of baking bread and cooking for thirty years. In the last few years, she has shifted focus from baking bread to countertop appliance-driven cookbooks that embrace the use of seasonal ingredients, merge convenience with cooking from scratch, and modernizing the home kitchen: the bread machine, the rice cooker, the microwave oven, and now a four-volume compilation specifically for use with the electric slow cooker, stressing care in preparation and personal creativity.
Hensperger's writing career began when she was chosen as the guest cooking instructor for the March 1985 issue of Bon Appétit. Now she is the author of over twenty cookbooks, including the best-selling Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook series, which includes Not Your Mother's Recipes for Entertaining, Not Your Mother's Family Favorites, Not Your Mother's Weeknight Suppers, and NYMSC Recipes for Two along with the blockbuster first volume, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook. Also from The Harvard Common Press are The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook, The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook, and The Best Quick Breads. She is also the author of The Bread Bible, winner of the 2000 James Beard Book Award in Baking, and nominated twice for an IACP Cookbook Award.
Hensperger wrote a food column, "Baking with the Seasons," for the San Jose Mercury News (which was nominated for a James Beard Award in newspaper journalism) for over 12 years until the newspaper downsized.
She is a contributor to dozens of national and online cooking & lifestyle magazines, such as Food and Wine, Rachel Ray Magazine, Prevention, Veggie Life, Working Woman, Family Circle, and Cooking.com, as well as being a sought after radio interviewee speaking on cooking, baking, and entertaining. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
Visit Beth's website at BethHensperger.com and her weekly blog at notyourmotherscookbooks.com.
