Product Description

It's awfully hard not to love party nuts. Whether salty or sweet, spicy or mild, they are addictively delicious, the perfect nibble food for your next cocktail party, holiday buffet, or any formal or informal gathering. In Party Nuts!, veteran author Sally Sampson presents 50 recipes for all sorts of flavored nuts that will please every palate. There are sweet varieties (Snappy Toffeed Pecans, Cinnamon Sugar and Orange Macadamia Nuts), mixes that will set your tongue tingling (Killer Peanuts, Salt and Chipotle Chile Almonds), savory versions (Rosemary Walnuts, Saffron Pistachios), and much more. Gorgeous full-color photography fills Party Nuts! and demonstrates creative ways to present the nuts. In helpful sidebars, Sally Sampson suggests drinks to accompany the nuts as well as ways to incorporate them into other completed recipes. Whether you are looking to serve nuts as an hors d'oeuvre or as a topping for your next butternut squash soup, Party Nuts! has something for every occasion.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #206685 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 80 pages

From Library Journal
A few years ago, food writer Sampson started playing around with a recipe for sweet and spicy pecans and then with other combinations of nuts and flavorings. Now she and her husband have their own business, Sampson's Nuts. Here are the recipes for the pecans that started it all, along with other "Savory Nuts," "Hot Nuts," and "Sweet Nuts," any of which would make a great gift from the kitchen as well as a party nibble. With its narrow focus, this is not a necessary purchase for most libraries, but larger collections may want to add it.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
"...Party Nuts! is full of simple recipes for savory, sweet, tangy, and spicy nuts that can go on anything..." -- Bon Appétit

"Even if you don't entertain much, party nuts make great TV snacks or impromptu holiday gifts." -- Cindy Hoedel, The Star

"Here is my pick for stocking-stuffer cookbook of the year." -- Dede Wilson, Daily Hampshire Gazette

"Party Nuts! could save your sanity the next time you're expecting a crowd for cocktails." -- O, The Oprah Magazine

"This book is a great idea for Christmas gift giving, but remember to get a copy for yourself, too." -- Dolores Kostelni, The News-Gazette

From the Publisher
Publisher's Note: The binding was faulty on the first printing of this book. We addressed the issue in subsequent printings and all current copies are well-bound.

Customer Reviews

Yummy
With its martini glass full of candied peppered walnuts on the cover, this lovely little book is so visually appealing and fun to flip through that it would be worth owning even if you had no intention of trying its recipes. Fortunately, the author invites experimentation in a voice as casual as that of a friend sitting on your kitchen counter. Pistachios, peanuts, pine nuts and walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts and pecans - my personal fave - are each lavished with many adornments from spicy to sweet to savory. Whether you're entertaining or serving up homemade gifts this holiday season, this book makes a happy addition to any kitchen library.

An essential addition to my cookbook collection!
Sally Sampson has packed more good ideas into a small volume than just about any other cookbook author I've read in years. Party Nuts is beautifully produced, but more importantly, it's well written and sharply edited. Stripped of the self indulgent fluff of so many cookbooks, Party Nuts provides such a welath of wonderful, simple, sweet and savory recipes that it's nearly impossible to decide where to begin. The photography is elegant and appropriate, and the book has that nice snack-size feel that makes me reach for it every time we have company.

This is a superb book and I highly recommend it to anybody who likes to entertain!

Buy Stock in Trader Joe's....
... because you'll be back again and again and again to buy more nuts. I've tried five or six recipes so far and they are all great... imaginative and easy. But I'd suggest doubling them, because they don't last. I made what I thought was an entire weekend's supply of chipotle almonds and vanilla walnuts for a camping trip, and they were gone by the end of the first night. The author suggests giving some party nuts as gifts, which is a great idea. I think a copy of the book and a box of pecans au poivre will be my holiday standard this year.