Cooking For Crowds For Dummies (For Dummies (Cooking)) (Paperback)

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Product Description
Over 100 recipes, plus time-saving planning tips and sanity-saving suggestions

Serve terrific food confidently and calmly, and wow your crowd!

Panicky about cooking for a casual church dinner, a posh graduation party, or a holiday feast for 50? With terrific recipes plus tips for everything from planning menus to preparation and presentation, you can serve a hungry crowd without getting all steamed up about it. You'll quickly grasp the basics you need to know to cook like an experienced pro.

Discover how to
* Serve great dishes, from appetizers through desserts
* Determine food quantities when cooking for groups
* Handle food safely
* Add ambience with easy decorations

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Over 100 recipes, plus time-saving planning tips and sanity-saving suggestions

Serve terrific food confidently and calmly, and wow your crowd!

Panicky about cooking for a casual church dinner, a posh graduation party, or a holiday feast for 50? With terrific recipes plus tips for everything from planning menus to preparation and presentation, you can serve a hungry crowd without getting all steamed up about it. You'll quickly grasp the basics you need to know to cook like an experienced pro.

Discover how to

• Serve great dishes, from appetizers through desserts
• Determine food quantities when cooking for groups
• Handle food safely
• Add ambience with easy decorations

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Product Details

• Paperback: 354 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (June 10, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764584693
• ISBN-13: 978-0764584695
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #148,464 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great and Easy, August 3, 2005

By	Stapleton Center (Detroit, Michigan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Good recipes, easy for anyone to follow. I manage a senior citizen facility and they are enjoying the change to our menu!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Growing Appreciation, September 27, 2007

By	Robyn Wimmer "Kitchen Queen" (Fargo, North Dakota United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

OK, at first, I wasn't particularly thrilled with this book. Maybe it's because I've been cooking for a crowd for awhile and hoped it would have more to offer. It's very basic. However, I am coming to appreciate its "basic-ness" and believe it's a good place to start if someone takes on a large crowd cooking challenge. Just having the information for how to estimate amounts of a particular food item is very nice; makes the math (at least for me!) much easier. I think the recipes are somewhat mundane, but again, since I've already come up with recipes that have worked successfully, maybe I'm not being fair. I think I came to respect the book and myself when I checked a recipe I've used against a similar one in the book and discovered they were close enough to make me feel as though I were anything but a dummy!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Helpful Book, April 6, 2008

By	joyful (USA) - See all my reviews

This book was a Great Big help to me, as I planned my first big crowd event! Very easy to read and understand, alot of great information and hints!