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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5
EAN: 9780894802041
ISBN: 0894802046
Label: Workman Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 362
Publication Date: January 04, 1982
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Studio: Workman Publishing Company




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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com Review:
First published in 1982, The Silver Palate Cookbook was an instant smash. It offered 350 stylish but easy recipes that reflected and helped cement America's burgeoning interest in quality cooking. It acquainted cooks with "gourmet" ingredients, just beginning to appear in our markets. And it helped many a host to shine.

The collection, whose recipes range from hors d'oeuvres to sweets, now arrives in a 25th-anniversary edition, which reproduces the original text and adds color photos throughout, often dropped into the text pages. All the old favorites, including Marinated Eggplant Livia, Chicken Marbella, Blanquette de Vaeu, and Blackberry Mousse are present, along with information about ingredients, menus, quotes, and other asides--all the things that help make the book such a pleasure. It's hard to imagine a cook--and especially one who entertains--not owning Silver Palate. This printing, which includes a retrospective foreword, offers more satisfaction still while reiterating the reasons for the book's enduring appeal. --Arthur Boehm



Amazon.com Exclusive: A Brief History of The Silver Palate Cookbook by Sheila Lukins
Twenty five years ago seems like the distant past but we still make ratatouille the same way and who would have ever dreamed that so many people would say to us, "I had Chicken Marbella at a dinner party last week and I just loved it." It took slight madness to open our little store in 1977. Florence Fabricant was writing an article on the renaissance of Columbus Avenue, where our shop was opening, we needed a name, she was on a deadline and called and said, "What are you calling your store?" We didn't know. "Why don't you call it The Silver Palate," she said. We loved it. It took sheer bravery in 1982 to write our book--who would need to buy food in our store any longer once they had all of our recipes? But that never happened for one hour. In fact, it helped us go national even further. Here we are, 25 years later, celebrating with a brand new edition of our book that finally highlights our recipes with vibrant color photographs. I once picked up the phone and someone on the other end said, "Sheila, I just baked the Decadent Chocolate Cake and my cake doesn't look like the drawing." I didn't know how to reply. I assured them the taste made up for the looks. It's bittersweet, but those problems are solved forever. While different, the color adds an exciting new dimension to the cookbook that has been a treasure to so many cooks for two and a half decades. Julee and I had a fantasy food partnership and the publication of this book has given us the opportunity to spend some wonderful time together.


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A Springtime Menu for Amazon.com
When the weather warms us up, there is no more welcome beginning to a meal that a light swirl of noodles tangled up with crisp spring vegetables. Follow this amusing starter with a succulent roast leg of lamb, the meat we all long for in the spring. Serve our Swiss Gratin Potatoes and some haricots verts alongside. A delightful finale to this springtime luncheon is a moist carrot cake with cream cheese frosting or a delicate strawberry mousse. --Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso Miller




Pasta Primavera Gregory


Roast Lamb with Peppercorn Crust



Carrot Cake


Strawberry Mousse







Product Description:
Now in its second decade, celebrate one of America's favorite cookbooks. The Silver Palate Cookbook with its 350 recipes is the widely-acclaimed contemporary classic that brought a new passion for food and hospitality into American homes. A James Beard Book Awards inductee into the cookbook Hall of Fame.

Book Description:
"A classic."—Irene Sax. "Bravo!"—Florence Fabricant. "Delightfully bright and charming."—The New York Times. "This is the book that changed the way America cooks."—Barbara Kafka. "The classic standard."—Danny Meyer. "To my generation what Joy of Cooking was to my mother’s."—Tom Valenti. "Smashing."—Michel Richard. " Enormous."—Marion Cunningham. "Ahead of its time."—Todd English. " Bravo Sheila and Julee!"—Daniel Boulud. "Wholly satisfying."—Mimi Sheraton. " Revolutionary!"—Steven Raichlen. "Charming to look at, cozy to cook with." — Gael Greene. "Long live The Silver Palate Cookbook."—Giuliano Bugialli.

Now here’s the Silver Anniversary edition, with a feast of 100 full-color photographs throughout and a vibrant new cover. This edition is the perfect gift to replace the millions of bedraggled copies in kitchens across America, and will introduce its timeless pleasures to a new generation of cooks.

Yes, Chicken Marbella in full color! Join the party!



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Love this book!
I first bought a copy of this cookbook for my mom, then one for myself, and now one for a friend. It's a great intro to "american" cooking and entertaining. My best find in this book: the curried butternut squash soup (which I'd never had before), and I love the sesame ham-and-cheese bites! Only drawback in this book: the amounts are meant for entertaining (10 lbs of meat for chili!) and need to be significantly scaled back when cooking for two...



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - This cookbook will endure for the ages
When I first began to learn how to cook I was overwhelmed with the array of cookbooks on the market. I purchased several compilations and found many of the recipes to have uneven results. You could spend an hour on a recipe only to have it turn out to be the blandest meal ever produced. In came The Silver Palate Cookbook by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins. This cookbook was notable for breaking away from traditional American fare, creating celebrated innovative American recipes and incorporating fresh ...
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - This book should be in every kitchen
I am on my third copy of the Silver Palate Cookbook as the first two were over-used till they split. Twenty five years later and everyone still likes spinach in phyllo and brie in puff pastry! Forget about Jerry Seinfeld's wife(hiding veggies in brownies)....the vegetable recipes in this book will appeal to your kids because they taste amazing. I have yet to find anyone who doesn't like the Chicken Marbella (children LOVE it....all that brown sugar). The venison stew is very good and a tasty way to ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - the only cookbook you'll ever need
If you can't find it in this cookbook or on [...], you don't need to make it. All of my favorite recipes--the ones friends and family beg for--are in this book. Its style is fresh ingredients with sensible, practical instructions: preparations simple enough that you can have a glass of wine and talk to your guests in the last forty minutes as you serve your hellacious dinner. You'll seem like a mircle-worker.

This is actually my second copy of the book--I used the other one (paperback) until ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - What???
Recipes I have been borrowing "forever" in this book...time to have my own!







 






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