From nibbles for four to food for a crowd, bestselling cookbook author Barbara Kafka offers partytime recipes for the harried, the hurried, and the helpless. This is the book for the host or hostess who wants to create parties that are an unqualified success, with an array of food that is simple to prepare, reasonably inexpensive, and always delicious!"Party Food" gives you more than four hundred recipes for finger foods, ranging from the quick and the easy to those that are more lavish and intricate, for party givers who enjoy spending more time in the kitchen. Party Food is as simple as focaccia and as unusual as Mini-Moussaka Rolls; as elegant as classic French PĊte en Croute and as basic as the perfect Papaya Salsa to serve with chips."Party Food" is beautifully illustrated, brimming with 150 color photographs that show you not only individual dishes, but magnificent spreads and buffets.Barbara Kafka has created exciting foods that will tantalize everyone's taste buds: Fresh Tomatillo Salsa, Roasted Red Pepper and Mushroom Salad, Vegetable Skewers, and Grilled Marinated Shrimp, which let your guests enjoy sensuous flavors while they mingle and help themselves from bowls and platters. The variety of recipes is astounding -- take your pick from fifty different dips and let your planning evolve from there. In addition, "Party Food" is chock-full of vegetarian recipes, which are highlighted in green.One of the most important goals of party planning is making sure that throwing a party doesn't interfere with enjoying it. Barbara Kafka offers explanations of how far ahead a recipe can be made, how dishes can be frozen and/or reheated, and how much of a given item you will need perperson. She shares secrets such as freezing chicken to make it easier to cut into strips for kabobs, and using your microwave to reduce preparation time. She also offers a host of flexible recipes such as Sun-Dried Tomato Dip, which can be served by itself, used as a pasta sauce, or enlisted as a base for dozens of other dishes. "Party Food" is simply the single, perfect party reference for any occasion.
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From Publishers Weekly
Kafka ( The Opinionated Palate ) here combines her talents for creating original recipes with good old common sense. This is a very practical guide to home entertaining (in our teetotaling times) when cocktail parties, as she writes, might be better characterized as "informal parties without assigned seats." Hers is a gathering of "finger food" recipes and ideas for serving store-bought and previously prepared foods, of suggestions for such matters as how to phrase the invitations ("We're all wearing jeans" or "I hope it will be very gala") to valuable--and not often shared--cooking methods: how to pit an olive, how to preserve pickles and chutneys, how to wrap foods in edible leaves and how to open oysters in a microwave oven. Some of the more novel recipes include glazed garlic on brochette, sweet-and-savory soy anise macadamia nuts, clams with black beans, and sage potatoes. A section on beverages rounds out the volume with recipes for nonalcoholic cocktails and champagne drinks. Author tour; HomeStyle Book Club main selection.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Kafka, author of the best-selling Microwave Gourmet ( LJ 9/15/87) and of columns for Gourmet and the New York Times , offers more than 300 delicious recipes for all sorts of occasions, from casual get-togethers to more elaborate cocktail parties. Recipes are arranged by type (dips and spreads, mousses and pates), and although most are upscale and sophisticated, others were created with young guests in mind; there are also a good number of vegetable/vegetarian dishes. Kafka emphasizes ease of preparation and lack of fuss, and many dishes can be completed well in advance of the party; she also includes a section on "ready-mades" in each chapter. Color photographs show off many of the finished dishes and offer inspirations for various menus and presentations as well. Highly recommended. HomeStyle Bks. main selection.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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The One Best Book when you don't know WHAT to serve!,
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This review is from: Party Food: Small and Savory (Hardcover)
From veggie purist to decadence (including martinis) beyond par, this is an amazing range of recipes for those delectables that will make YOUR party unforgettable. Choose a theme - you'll find a menu here! Or look in the frig - match what you have to what Kafka suggests. It's a big step beyond my other cookbooks with their "appetizer" sections - inspiring, fun yet SIMPLE. Great ideas on presentation... the art that follows the cooking.
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Easy to read and use. Beautiful to look at!,
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Barbara Kafka's Party Food has simple straightforward recipes. She has a grasp on what modern family life is like. There are lots of hints on how to make entertaining fun and relaxing. As an added plus the book has beautiful photographs. It is almost pretty enough to display. It is a great gift for any level of cook.
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The BEST party food book ever,
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This review is from: Party Food: Small and Savory (Hardcover)
This in the one cook book in my extensive collection I return to again and again. It's not pretentious and its fun and easy to use.The recipies work - Every single recipie I have ever tried works just as expected. There are no surprises. I have used some other big name appetizer books and been dissapointed, not so with Kafka's book. Everything is consistent and delicious. The photos are real and extremly helpfull to picturing the end results. This book helps with planning whether for a huge party or intimate gathering. Kafka outlines clearly which items can be fixed in advance, what can be frozen and what needs to be prepared on the spur of the moment. This book is packed with ideas. Kafka makes tons of suggestions for alternative uses of sauces, fillings and breads - all are completly cross referenced with page numbers and names. There is an entire section on dressing up "ready mades." The book covers everything from complete menu suggestions to cocktails to homemade breads to simple spreads. Finally, one of my favorite features is the extensive cross referenced index. It's easy to find anything you want whether you search on ingredients, origin or theme. I love this book and have purchased it as a gift for all of my family and friends.
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