Hors d’Oeuvres and
Appetizers Book Review by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
Williams-Sonoma
along with Gourmet magazine does
informative short books for holiday entertaining almost every year.
One
of my favorite information-packed cookbooks for planning “cocktail parties” of
any kind of “rallye” is 108 pages long and is entitled Hors d’Oeuvres and Appetizers published by the Williams-Sonoma
Kitchen Library.
Special
features of this cookbook include:
-a
2-page spread on cooking equipment
-4
basic recipes for other recipes in the book: tart pastry, puffball pastry,
pizza dough, and yogurt quick bread
-4-page
glossary describing Mediterranean ingredients and their usage
-index
of 4 basic recipes and 42 cocktail dishes
Each
of the 42 recipes has a photo of the completed dish and ingredients separated
out from the step-by-step method (without numbers)
The
42 recipes feature American and international dishes such as:
-cheese
puffs
-mixed
Mediterranean vegetable terrine
-eggplant
caviar
-marinated
button mushrooms
-gravlax
– sweet and salty smoked salmon from Scandinavia
-tandoori
chicken from the Punjab
I
use this 108-page cookbook as a reference for ordering catering as well as for
cooking the items in it myself.
Williams-Sonoma
makes many of these books every year, but you can distinguish between books
with the same title by looking at the ISBN Number when ordering.
The
book has an ISBN of 0-7835-0218-4 for easy ordering.
Happy
sampling!!!!
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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