Inspired Bites: Unexpected Ideas for Entertaining from Pinch Food Design

by Bob Spiegel, TJ Girard, Casey Barber

TJ Girard and Bob Spiegel, co-owners of the catering company Pinch Food Design, are known for their unforgettable party food and one-of-a-kind design sensibility. This book reveals their trade secrets, offering up irresistible recipes for your next cocktail party—paired with DIY projects for presenting food in fun, elegant, and original ways.
Forget about the same old tired dips, mini quiches, and pot stickers. Instead think truffled quail eggs on mini English muffins, skate schnitzel with spaetzle, deconstructed buffalo chicken wings, fennel glazed duck on polenta, salted chocolate cookie with rosemary ice cream sandwiches, banana semifreddo on cocoa rice crunch, and more. With these addictively delicious recipes and advice on how to present food like a pro, Inspired Bites ensures the next gathering you host will be a memorable one.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

224 pages, Hardcover

First published October 7, 2014

Reviews

[Robert Hudder · Rating 3 out of 5]

This has some awesome ideas for presentation and good flavour combinations. Clipboard serving trays and hanging donuts with chili honey are all par for the course. If I was thinking about entertaining in new and fun ways, this would be a good book for inspiration.