Product Description

Over 100 recipes, plus time-saving planning tips and sanity-saving suggestions

Serve terrific food confidently and calmly, and wow your crowd!

Panicky about cooking for a casual church dinner, a posh graduation party, or a holiday feast for 50? With terrific recipes plus tips for everything from planning menus to preparation and presentation, you can serve a hungry crowd without getting all steamed up about it. You'll quickly grasp the basics you need to know to cook like an experienced pro.

Discover how to
* Serve great dishes, from appetizers through desserts
* Determine food quantities when cooking for groups
* Handle food safely
* Add ambience with easy decorations

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #444563 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 354 pages

From the Back Cover
Over 100 recipes, plus time-saving planning tips and sanity-saving suggestions

Serve terrific food confidently and calmly, and wow your crowd!

Panicky about cooking for a casual church dinner, a posh graduation party, or a holiday feast for 50? With terrific recipes plus tips for everything from planning menus to preparation and presentation, you can serve a hungry crowd without getting all steamed up about it. You'll quickly grasp the basics you need to know to cook like an experienced pro.

Discover how to

• Serve great dishes, from appetizers through desserts
• Determine food quantities when cooking for groups
• Handle food safely
• Add ambience with easy decorations

About the Author
Dawn Simmons is a professional caterer and teaches online catering courses.

Curt Simmons is the author of more than 50 books, including iPhoto For Dummies.

Customer Reviews

Great and Easy
Good recipes, easy for anyone to follow. I manage a senior citizen facility and they are enjoying the change to our menu!

Growing Appreciation
OK, at first, I wasn't particularly thrilled with this book. Maybe it's because I've been cooking for a crowd for awhile and hoped it would have more to offer. It's very basic. However, I am coming to appreciate its "basic-ness" and believe it's a good place to start if someone takes on a large crowd cooking challenge. Just having the information for how to estimate amounts of a particular food item is very nice; makes the math (at least for me!) much easier. I think the recipes are somewhat mundane, but again, since I've already come up with recipes that have worked successfully, maybe I'm not being fair. I think I came to respect the book and myself when I checked a recipe I've used against a similar one in the book and discovered they were close enough to make me feel as though I were anything but a dummy!

Very Helpful Book
This book was a Great Big help to me, as I planned my first big crowd event! Very easy to read and understand, alot of great information and hints!