Our Recipes

When a cookbook author opens with information that she has lost 135 pounds, most readers sit up and pay attention. The introduction is pure inspiration for those with weight issues. But when readers get to the recipe section, they will be both inspired and amazed. The eighty recipes in this book seem really decadent even if they are, for the most part, very healthy.

This new cookbook will broaden your imagination about what Italian food is and can be through recipes from the innovative chefs at the Big Mamma restaurant group, who make traditional Italian dishes with a modern flair. Everything is here for recreating a splendid Italian meal at home, from appetizers to desserts, interspersed with helpful tips from the chefs on such topics as “How to Choose and Serve Fish” or “The Real Tomato Sauce” (which is surprisingly simple to make, but an essential component of many dishes).

Cookbook writer Paul Stuart has plans to write a book entitled The Philosophy of Food at home in Edinburgh, but after a breakup with his girlfriend and editor Gloria, he gets a chance to accompany his cousin Chloe to France. Surely the change of scenery will spur him to finish his manuscript – at least that is what he’s hoping. But that’s before Paul discovers the second-worst restaurant in France, right in the village where he is staying.

This Pusheen cookbook is a feast for the eyes. The photography is absolutely stunning, with almost every image decorated in colors of pastel pinks, greens, and purples. Everything is so insanely cute! My children (who are all total Pusheen fans) could not stop pouring over the cookbook. They wanted to try all the recipes.

The main reason to buy cookbooks is to get new recipes that one can try and enjoy. The first criterion is that readers can make the intended dish. If the recipes are not duplicated or contain ingredients that the reader does not consume, then the book’s utility increases. If those recipes are from faraway lands or provide a health benefit, so much the better.