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The Summertime Anytime Cookbook: Recipes from Shutters on the Beach [Hardcover]

Dana Slatkin (Author)
4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)


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Book Description

May 13, 2008
Nestled in the sand on the Santa Monica coast, Shutters On The Beach is everyone’s favorite luxury seaside resort, serving up fresh and delicious food with style year-round. In The Summertime Anytime Cookbook, Dana Slatkin shares 130 irresistible recipes from her family’s celebrated hotel for any day or night at the beach.

Whether it’s a scorching summer day or a foggy morning in early spring, Slatkin knows better than most that life at the beach truly revolves around the weather. So The Summertime Anytime Cookbook is cleverly divided into the chapters Sunny Days, Cloudy Days, Balmy Nights, Stormy Nights, Misty Mornings, and Beach Basics. Perfect rain or shine, the appealing, fuss-free dishes are Shutters favorites, including Plum Tomato Soup with Baby Grilled Cheese Sandwiches; Dungeness Crab Cakes with Avocado Tartar Sauce; Bull’s-Eye Eggs; and Yogurt Mousse with Honey-Poached Apricots.

Along with recipes for colorful entr?es and side dishes, fresh picnic fare, simple sauces, and fabulous desserts, The Summertime Anytime Cook-book offers inventive style and entertaining ideas for casually elegant beach living, such as Five Wonderful Ways to Spend a Cloudy Day at the Beach, How to Make the Perfect Smoothie, and Six Uses for a Bucket of Sand. Slatkin also shares expert tips on creating over-the-top hotel hospitality, decorating with relaxed sophistication, and preparing homemade spa treatments.

With simple, artful food for every day and night, and stunning color photographs, The Summertime Anytime Cookbook is your secret to bringing the best of the beach into your own home.


Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Woven together with lifestyle and entertaining tips, this cookbook by Slatkin, a Culinary Institute of America–trained chef, was inspired by her family's hotel, Shutters on the Beach, a 200-room beachfront luxury resort in Santa Monica, Calif. The recipes are appealing enough and easy to follow, but aren't particularly inspiring, beach-worthy or portable, with the notable exception of Peanut-Butterscotch Crunch Bars and Iced Nougat with Honey and Figs. By dividing the recipes into different types of weather—Sunny Days, Cloudy Days, Balmy Nights, Stormy Nights, Misty Mornings—the author seems to be trying to squeeze the four seasons into a temperate climate in an attempt to broaden the book's demographic reach. But the distinctions seem somewhat arbitrary: why is a lemon tart for a cloudy not sunny day? Cucumber Gazpacho might be nice for a hot day at the shore, but a Grilled Chicken Club Sandwich with bacon and mayonnaise probably wouldn't be a good idea in the heat. The lifestyle tips, while sometimes obvious, are more on target. Pool Perfect includes suggestions for how to make your home pool seem like one at a fancy resort with thoughtful amenities such as scented towels and undiluted iced drinks, while Six Uses for a Bucket of Sand offers creative suggestions for bringing the beach indoors when the weather outside is uncooperative. Photos. (May)
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Review

“With its vibrant, simple recipes based on the freshest seasonal ingredients, The Summertime Anytime Cookbook is the next best thing to actually being at Shutters on the Beach.”
—Wolfgang Puck

“If you can't get yourself to Shutters on the Beach at least now there is this fantastic cookbook by Dana Slatkin to bring a beach to your home kitchen!”
—Suzanne Goin, chef-owner of Lucques and AOC restaurants

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Clarkson Potter (May 13, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0307381234
  • ISBN-13: 978-0307381231
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 0.9 x 10.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #810,945 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars My new favorite!, June 3, 2008
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Crazy delicious and easy to use recipes. My new staple is the sweet corn chowder. The book is also loaded with great cooking tips and is so beautiful to look at, I bought a dozen copies to give out as hostess gifts this summer! The summertime vibe is now very much alive in my home(and it isn't even summer yet!).
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!, May 16, 2008
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Nicole (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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WOW! What a fresh, accessible cookbook. It's my new favorite on the bookshelf, right next to the Barefoot Contessa series. I was hungry for easy, hip recipes I could use in cooking for my family and having friends over, and this book really delivered just what I was looking for.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Practical and Delicious Recipes, September 1, 2008
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Erika Lenkert "Erika" (San Francisco Bay Area) - See all my reviews
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As a food journalist, recipe developer, and recipe tester I've done more than my share of cooking from cookbooks and often find that the recipes don't inspire me or are too complicated to embark on for everyday meals.

What I absolutely love about this cookbook is that the recipes are not only easy, but they also happen to be extraordinarily good. Again and again I am delighted with how fantastic the food tastes, and how approachable the ingredients and instructions are.

I truly cannot say enough good things about this book.
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