Celebrate!

by Sheila Lukins

Time to celebrate! With one purpose only-to bring family and friends together-Sheila Lukins presents Celebrate! , a full-color extravaganza of a book with 46 festive menus, 350 foolproof, with-a-twist recipes in the Silver Palate style, 200 color photographs, and throughout, the passion that's made her one of America's most creative cooks and best-loved food writers. Here are menus to re-energize traditional holidays-for Thanksgiving serve Maple Ginger Turkey with a piquant Cornbread Chorizo Stuffing. Menus that will turn impromptu gatherings into yearly events--a hearty selection of bowl foods for Super Bowl Sunday, a red-white-and-blue menu for a Memorial Day barbecue, an easy weekday Cozy Dinner for Two. And menus that will inspire whole new reasons to throw a party--The Big Raise (featuring a Blushing Lobster Cocktail), When Spring Has Sprung, The First Summer Tomatoes, a Celebrate Morocco Dinner with Moorish Carrot Soup, Lamb Tagine, Orange Flower Sorbet. Celebrate! is a blueprint for joy, making any time the right time to celebrate and showing just how to pull it off.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food and Drink

420 pages, Paperback

First published November 24, 2003

About the author

Sheila Lukins (1942–2009), was an American cook and food writer. She was most famous as the co-author, with Julee Rosso, of the The Silver Palate series of cookbooks, and The New Basics Cookbook, a very popular set of cookbooks which introduced many Americans to southern and eastern European cooking techniques and ingredients and revitalized a richer and very boldly seasoned style of cooking to Americans in sharp contrast to the health-food movements of the 1970s. Together, their books sold more than seven million copies. She was also the co-founder and owner of the popular Silver Palate gourmet shop in New York City and, for 23 years, the food editor and columnist for PARADE, a position previously held by Julia Child.

Reviews

[Emmeri · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you like Key Lime Pie this book has the best recipe for it (fresh ginger makes it perfect). I've made quite a few recipes in this book and they always turn out great, not just good-enough-for-dinner but great. The Key Lime Pie has become a classic in my family and is made at least twice year. The eggnog and fresh cranberry sauce is also wonderful.

The only problem I have with this cookbook is that sometimes it doesn't have the recipe I'm looking for, but really that's not the cookbooks fault :) I highly recommend this to amature and expert cooks. The recipes are easy to follow but the flavors are excellent.

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Consistently my favorite and most-trusted cookbook.

[Joelen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book full of good recipes and menu plans for various holidays and special occassions. It served as a great resource to come up with menu and entertaining ideas.

[Catherine Woodman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty, great photographs, and a good concept --food to celebrate with--it jsut wasn't the way we celebrate, so we never went very far with it

[Sky · Rating 5 out of 5]

By far the best cookbook ever! I love how it is written and it is so easy to find things in! It also has some pretty amazing recipes!