Now You're Cooking for Company: Everything a Beginner Needs to Know to Have People over [Hardcover]

Elaine Corn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1996

The thousands of beginning cooks who learned the fundamentals of the kitchen with Now You're Cooking will discover the dining room with Now You're Cooking for Company. Readers can whip up everything from informal breakfasts to five-course dinners and traditional holiday feasts with these 120 easy-to-follow recipes. 200 photos and line drawings.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In this sequel to Now You're Cooking (a 1994 winner of both the Julia Child and James Beard awards), Corn calls upon Southern hospitality and candor to transform novice cooks into fearless hosts and hostesses. Clear, step-by-step directions and special workshop sessions on basic equipment and techniques (e.g., roasting and carving) complement more than 100 recipes for party snacks, beverages, holiday gatherings, dinner parties and breakfasts. Corn arms home cooks with a repertoire of easy, upscale fare. Creative but not too demanding, the recipes include Stuffed Artichokes, Winter Squash Soup, Grilled Coconut Chicken, Yucatan-Flavor Roast Pork and October Cider Cake. First-time hosts (and/or apartment dwellers), however, might wait to tackle the more ambitious instructions for Country Ham, a feast for 30 people that calls for marinating the meat in a five-gallon plastic bucket filled with 10 bottles of cider vinegar, two fifths of Bourbon and three liters of Coke (not diet) for three days. Nevertheless, amateur cooks are well served by Corn's guide, which also includes before- and after-party cleaning tips, menu suggestions, a bartending guide and a generous and helpful "Let's Talk" feature that offers such extra information as what the veining is in blue cheese and how to use paper towels as a sieve.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

In the follow-up to her award-winning Now You're Cooking (LJ 10/15/94), Corn assumes that the readers she led through the pitfalls of the kitchen in that book are ready to tackle entertaining. She explains "What You'll Need More Of" if company's coming, demystifies gravy-making and carving, and provides a game plan for making Thanksgiving dinner (some once-a-year-cooks would want the book for this alone). Once again, the recipes are really "step-by-step" (Do This First, Do This Second), but they are slightly more sophisticated or demanding. There are lots of useful lists and information-packed sidebars (Let's Talk) on almost every page. With Corn's help, fans of her last book?and other beyond beginner-cooks?may find themselves cooking food that is, as she says, "pretty high up there on finesse." Recommended for most libraries.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Harlow & Ratner (October 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883791030
• ISBN-13: 978-1883791032
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,055,267 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great cook book for beginners and semi-beginners!, July 4, 2002

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This review is from: Now You're Cooking for Company: Everything a Beginner Needs to Know to Have People over (Hardcover)

I love this book. I also own the original Now You're Cooking. Elaine Corn gives great instructions, tips and the recipes are wonderful. I have used her books countless times when having company. I especially like the fact that she tells you the order of preparation and how to time everything. These books are great for college grads or brides. And the Chocolate chip cookie recipe in the Now You're Cooking book is the BEST.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Elaine Corn is a lifesaver!, October 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Now You're Cooking for Company: Everything a Beginner Needs to Know to Have People over (Hardcover)

I love this book! I have 'Now You're Cooking' as well and they are the two most used books in my collection. The recipes are for good, simple, full flavor meals. If you weren't raised in the chicken it can be daunting learning to cook, especially if you don't want to live off of boxed/canned foods. If you know someone moving out on their own, off to college, whatever, get this for them. It is fantastic!