Product Description

Every good cook knows that glamorous, delicious food can be simple to prepare as long as you have a few tricks up your sleeve. There's advice on how to cut corners and plan your preparation, ideas on how to adapt each recipe to make the most of the freshest seasonal ingredients, and inspirational garnishing and serving tips. Every dish in Diva Cooking looks a million dollars, tastes a million dollars and costs...a lot less. From Sri Lankan fish cakes with tomato sambal to Lavender-honey mascarpone creme brulee, these are all irresistible dishes for the modern diva cook.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #354193 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-14
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 76 pages

Review
"Diva Cooking has great tips and tantalising recipes for everything from easy canapes to glam feasts. You will be performing culinary treats in your ballgown and tiara in no time." Elle; "packed with top tips to help you create fabulous canapes, tarts, and meat and fish dishes. But best of all, these recipes don't take forever, leaving you all the time you need to pamper yourself" OK; "Victoria and Jennifer can cater for any party of mine any day, and with their help everyone will want to come to yours." Clarissa Dickson Wright"

About the Author
Victoria Blashford-Snell is the co-author of Canapes (Dorling Kindersley) A graduate of Le Cordon Bleu, she runs a successful catering company in Wiltshire. Jennifer Joyce has held classes on Californian, Pacific and Italian cooking, and has filmed a series for Carlton Food Network on Modern Californian Cuisine. Both Victoria and Jennifer are featured authors in the Books for Cooks series and teach at the Books for Cooks shop.

Customer Reviews

A winner every time
A friend gave us a copy of Diva Cooking to add to our large-ish collection. Over time I've used it numerous times. Don't be put off by the slightly tiring deliberate campness of it all or by the ever so descriptive names; this is an absolute no-fail book for anyone who is serious about dinner parties, group catering and long summer picnics. Every recipe in this book is a winner, the tips are spot-on and the menu suggestions more hit than miss. You can just as easily create an authentic Moroccan feast as a traditional three-course, sit-down dinner. My favourites? The chocolate cookies, meze platter, balsamic chicken with wild mushrooms and pancetta... and that's just because I have been asked to make them so often I haven't quite completed some of the other dishes yet. The recipies are clear, correct and tried-and-tested. The result is a winner. A fantastic book to own or to give away.

This book rocks!
Diva was the first cookery book I bought in my profession as a yacht chef. Wow....what an inspirational book. The recipes and ingredients initially appear long and complicated but on the contrary, are some of the easiest I've followed. Often all you need to do is place all ingredients in a screw top jar and shake your way to a fabulous dressing. All the recipes include invaluble "do's and don'ts" to perfect the final product with advice on what you can prepare in advance. Every chef I have shown this book to, has added it to their collection....and unashamedly swears by it.

The best dinner party book I own
I bought this book after I noticed my friend had used it for a number of meals that we had enjoyed at her house. It is fantastic, something for every occasion and taste, really simple to use I love the "Diva Do's" and "Diva Dont's", they help to prevent that last minute rush or huge delay between courses and make it easy to prepare stuff in advance if you want to. The best book I have for entertaining!