Product Description

If you love to entertain and share good food with your friends and family, whether it is a relaxed Friday night supper, a lazy brunch, a full-on posh dinner party or cooking for a crowd on New Year's Eve, then this book is a must. It has an easy-to-follow layout, with four main chapters broken down into various different menus, offering you food for every occasion: Two's Company, Relaxed Entertaining, The Extravagant Dinner Party and Cooking for a Crowd. From Coconut and ricotta hotcakes with espresso syrup to Honey roast ham with pistachio crumbs, via Mini tomato tatins and Spiced mussels with tomato spaghetti, Jo Pratt's creative and stylish recipes are fuss-free and easy to follow. Accompanied by beautiful full-colour photography, drink suggestions and recipe hints and tips, this book will make entertaining a joy, whatever the occasion.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4036 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-04
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

Review
'Jo Pratt is being hailed the most fashionable cook since Nigella.' - Muriel Bolger, Irish Mail on Sunday 'Bursting with delicious recipes for every occasion, this is a must-have for keen cooks' Heat

About the Author
Jo Pratt's quirky, no-fuss recipe ideas and beautiful food styling appear in various magazines such as Olive and BBC Good Food Magazine. She is the Food Editor for Glamour magazine, one of the UK's bestselling monthly magazines and a contributor to the Weekend magazine in the Daily Mail. Jo is also an increasingly familiar face on our television screens, appearing regularly on ITV's Daily Cooks, Saturday Cooks and Soapstar Superchef to UKTV's Market Kitchen, Great Food Live and Sky One's Taste. Jo's unique style comes from her ability to adapt what she's learnt working alongside Michelin-starred chefs, such as Gary Rhodes and Gordon Ramsey, to create stylish, accessible recipes that anyone can make at home.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic!
I have a been a huge fan of Jo's previous book 'In The Mood For Food', and have been looking forward to her follow up with much anticipation.

It's really fabulous, a truly worthy successor, fantastic recipes for family, gatherings, dinner parties or even just the two of you. The photography is really stunning, light, bright and cook-me-now-delicious. I would like to cook more than half the book(!), and I will even give some of her menu suggestion a go - I usually mix and match myself.

The recipes are so now, up to date and really just the kind of things I'd like to cook for my family and friends. A real credit to Jo's cookery skill is that she even makes first courses not just maneagable but things you'd like to eat. If you bought In The Mood For Food and are wondering about this one, buy it (I'm not on commission, promise!)it's just so good!

Excellent
having previously purchsed her previous book which I also think is great, I was keen to add this book to my collection.

I have not been diappointed! The warm chocolate cinnamon torte is divine. Easy to make, clear instructions with an excellent end product. I have made this a couple of times for friends and each time they have insited on having the recipe.

The photos in the book cannot help but encourage you to try your hand. I have never been disappointed with any of the recipes I have done in either of Jo's books.

An Excellent purchase!!

More yummy food...
Jo has come up again with some great ideas and easy to arrange menus for lots of different occasions. Love the "Pimp up your Dinner Party" section as staying in is the new going out and this is sure to impress your foodie friends. Am not a fan of deserts and I find Jo's easy to make and no fuss so I can enjoy doing the other things as well - oh and there are drink recommendations too which I love!
If you like having friends over to dinner or out to impress a new beau then get this in and get cooking!