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This fresh approach to cooking encourages readers to embrace cooking as a form of personal and group entertainment. Included are instructions for kitchen organization, 230 easy recipes, tips on special meals, ethnic foods, and degree of difficulty in preparation. Illustrations.
About the author
Jorj Morgan is the author of cooking, entertaining, travel, and healthy lifestyle books. She is committed to helping time-constrained home cooks prepare nourishing, delicious meals for family and friends alike. Jorj is on a mission to share her penchant for classic comfort food, served with a gourmet twist, with everyone she touches. Her expert foodie status comes from decades of experience blitzing her recipes across popular blogs, Facebook, podcasts, and Instagram as well as with her successful newsletter and website, Jorj.com. She is an experienced public speaker, party planner, caterer, and cooking class instructor.Jorj has appeared on nationally syndicated television programs and participated in regional media tours with television appearances in Florida, Georgia and North and South Carolina. Jorj has been the featured guest on numerous radio food and entertaining programs. Her quotes have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, New York Times, Women's World, First for Women, and Readers Digest, among others.
Summary
At Home in the Kitchen is a fresh, new approach to cooking. Supported by an interactive Web site, the book is the first of what is sure to be a popular new way of helping busy working women, particularly executives -- who have very little time available for planning and executing complicated, exotic dishes -- to prepare excellent meals every day. Having designed the book to take the mystique out of cooking, Jorj Morgan encourages readers to embrace cooking at home as a form of personal and group entertainment. Among the many helpful elements that make At Home in the Kitchen a uniquely helpful cookbook are:
-- Instructions on kitchen organization
-- More than 230 easy, fun, and delicious recipes
-- An easy-to-read, step-by-step format, with no more than ten steps per recipe
-- Recipes sorted by cooking techniques, from easiest to more elaborate
-- Organized into foods the reader could eat in a restaurant
-- Many tips, including definitions of terms, cooking methods, tips on substituting ingredients, and dish presentation
-- Three indexes -- food groups, ingredients, and cooking techniques
-- Web site support devoted to encouraging cooks to prepare food creatively by using the recipes in the book as a guideline, inviting Web site users to share their cooking experiences, finding answers to questions, and updating new recipes and menu plansAt Home in the Kitchen is a unique cookbook for the information age, combining the traditional nature of a cookbook with the flexibility of a Web site.
