Cooking Tips for the Holiday Season
Cookbook by best-selling Sur La Table chef presents 250 recipes for family meals and gatherings
(PRWEB) December 3, 2003
“Christy is a talented and dedicated culinary professional and a fantastic cooking teacher. Her cooking classes are so popular and in such demand—she has the unique ability to read her students’ hearts. I have witnessed the magic of her presence when she works.”
—Martin Yan, Host of Yan Can Cook
The Family Table
Where Great Food, Friends, and Family Gather Together
Christy Rost
Foreword by Master Chef Martin Yan of PBS TVÂ’s Yan Can Cook
November 2003 ISBN 1-931868-47-6 $29.95
320 pp., 7 x 9, 2 color 8 page full color insert; 16 photos
Dulles, VA: With the holiday season quickly approaching, many family cooks are panicking about how to feed for the masses of family members who have arrived and what to feed them. You want them to enjoy your food, but you need to have dishes that are easy to prepare. Sur La TableÂ’s best-selling chef Christy Rost presents 250 recipes for gathering your family around the table in her newly release cookbook "THE FAMILY TABLE: Where Great Food, Friends, and Family Gather Together."
Featuring favorite family recipes from celebrity chefs and authors, such as Master Chef Martin Yan, star of the long-running PBS cooking series Yan Can Cook; restaurateur and vegetarian cookbook author, Claire Criscuolo; cookbook author, radio host, and PBS chef, Lauren Groveman; and Executive Chef William Koval of the historic and elegant Hotel Adolphus in Dallas, Texas, "THE FAMILY TABLE" is a practical volume of recipes for todayÂ’s home cook, emphasizing the beauty of simple foods, local ingredients, reasonably priced wines from around the world, and the joy of dining together as a family.
“I am passionate about family meals,” Rost says. “Gathering together around the table provides us with the opportunity to celebrate the most important things in life—love, family, good health, and good friends. Meals are part of the glue that holds our family together and keeps it close.
They are the way our family celebrates triumphs large and small, the forum in which we discuss current events, school projects and family vacation plans. For some families, sitting down together for a meal occurs primarily during the holidays, but in our home, family meals have always been a daily ritual.”
According to Rost, the key to successfully preserving the family meal is an arsenal of family-friendly recipes. Inspired by her television cooking/lifestyle show, “Just Like Home,” the recipes in "THE FAMILY TABLE" are designed to assist busy families and couples in getting nutritious, delicious meals on the table day after day, night after night.
The recipes included in "THE FAMILY TABLE" range from all-American favorites like Homestyle Meatloaf and Sunday Best Mashed Potatoes, to Caribbean, Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, and Mexican cuisine. "THE FAMILY TABLE" is divided into four sections: Everyday Meals, Weekends, Entertaining at Home, and Holidays. Within each section, recipes are grouped by type (salads, entrees, side dishes, etc.), and wine suggestions are included with many of the entrée recipes.
“Even singles will find this book useful in preparing today’s popular cocktails, quick and easy appetizers, and meals for last-minute get-togethers,” Rost says. “And anyone as fond of entertaining, but as short on time as I, will love 'THE FAMILY TABLE’s' entertaining section, because I believe the focus of entertaining should be more on the guests and less on the event. This section is devoted to recipes and suggestions that make entertaining fun and easy, but oh-so-distinctive.”
Recipes in "THE FAMILY TABLE" include: Buttermilk Cornbread Muffins, Tomato Galette, Thick and Creamy Tortilla Soup, Grilled Marinated Pork Chops, Cape Cod Rice Pilaf, Apple Cranberry Muffins, German Apple Pancakes, Mango Spinach Salad with Blackberry Vinaigrette, Portabella Mushroom Turnovers, Pink Rum Desire, Berries with Champagne Sabayon, Grilled Lemon Basil Chicken, Rack of Lamb Dijon, Roasted Herbed Pork Loin, Onion Souffle, and Stuffed Zucchini Boasts.
Christy Rost’s culinary career began in early 1992 when she was asked to serve as the food editor for The Park Cities News in Dallas, Texas, a position she still holds. What followed was an outpouring of support and requests. Since then she has hosted cooking seminars with Macy’s, held cooking classes for Sur La Table, hosted her own television cooking show, “Just Like Home,” appeared on several other television cooking shows, including “At Home Live,” and launched a successful culinary career. Christy is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. She can be heard on the radio every Sunday on KRLD’s “The Restaurant Show with Jim White.” Christy takes classical voice lessons and often sings during her cooking classes. She lives with her husband and two sons in Dallas, Texas. Visit her on the Web at www. easyentertain. com.
