Product Description

Nestled in the sand on the Santa Monica coast, Shutters On The Beach is everyone’s favorite luxury seaside resort, serving up fresh and delicious food with style year-round. In The Summertime Anytime Cookbook, Dana Slatkin shares 130 irresistible recipes from her family’s celebrated hotel for any day or night at the beach.

Whether it’s a scorching summer day or a foggy morning in early spring, Slatkin knows better than most that life at the beach truly revolves around the weather. So The Summertime Anytime Cookbook is cleverly divided into the chapters Sunny Days, Cloudy Days, Balmy Nights, Stormy Nights, Misty Mornings, and Beach Basics. Perfect rain or shine, the appealing, fuss-free dishes are Shutters favorites, including Plum Tomato Soup with Baby Grilled Cheese Sandwiches; Dungeness Crab Cakes with Avocado Tartar Sauce; Bull’s-Eye Eggs; and Yogurt Mousse with Honey-Poached Apricots.

Along with recipes for colorful entr?es and side dishes, fresh picnic fare, simple sauces, and fabulous desserts, The Summertime Anytime Cook-book offers inventive style and entertaining ideas for casually elegant beach living, such as Five Wonderful Ways to Spend a Cloudy Day at the Beach, How to Make the Perfect Smoothie, and Six Uses for a Bucket of Sand. Slatkin also shares expert tips on creating over-the-top hotel hospitality, decorating with relaxed sophistication, and preparing homemade spa treatments.

With simple, artful food for every day and night, and stunning color photographs, The Summertime Anytime Cookbook is your secret to bringing the best of the beach into your own home.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #281835 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-13
• Released on: 2008-05-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Woven together with lifestyle and entertaining tips, this cookbook by Slatkin, a Culinary Institute of America–trained chef, was inspired by her family's hotel, Shutters on the Beach, a 200-room beachfront luxury resort in Santa Monica, Calif. The recipes are appealing enough and easy to follow, but aren't particularly inspiring, beach-worthy or portable, with the notable exception of Peanut-Butterscotch Crunch Bars and Iced Nougat with Honey and Figs. By dividing the recipes into different types of weather—Sunny Days, Cloudy Days, Balmy Nights, Stormy Nights, Misty Mornings—the author seems to be trying to squeeze the four seasons into a temperate climate in an attempt to broaden the book's demographic reach. But the distinctions seem somewhat arbitrary: why is a lemon tart for a cloudy not sunny day? Cucumber Gazpacho might be nice for a hot day at the shore, but a Grilled Chicken Club Sandwich with bacon and mayonnaise probably wouldn't be a good idea in the heat. The lifestyle tips, while sometimes obvious, are more on target. Pool Perfect includes suggestions for how to make your home pool seem like one at a fancy resort with thoughtful amenities such as scented towels and undiluted iced drinks, while Six Uses for a Bucket of Sand offers creative suggestions for bringing the beach indoors when the weather outside is uncooperative. Photos. (May)
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Review
“With its vibrant, simple recipes based on the freshest seasonal ingredients, The Summertime Anytime Cookbook is the next best thing to actually being at Shutters on the Beach.”
—Wolfgang Puck

“If you can't get yourself to Shutters on the Beach at least now there is this fantastic cookbook by Dana Slatkin to bring a beach to your home kitchen!”
—Suzanne Goin, chef-owner of Lucques and AOC restaurants

About the Author
Dana Slatkin is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. After working in acclaimed kitchens in France and New York, she launched the Beverly Hills Farmer’s Market and her own line of food products. Slatkin remains a consultant to food companies and teaches cooking classes to children and adults. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, co-owner of the celebrated Santa Monica hotel Shutters On The Beach, and their three children. Visit www.shuttersonthebeach.com

Customer Reviews

My new favorite!
Crazy delicious and easy to use recipes. My new staple is the sweet corn chowder. The book is also loaded with great cooking tips and is so beautiful to look at, I bought a dozen copies to give out as hostess gifts this summer! The summertime vibe is now very much alive in my home(and it isn't even summer yet!).

WOW!
WOW! What a fresh, accessible cookbook. It's my new favorite on the bookshelf, right next to the Barefoot Contessa series. I was hungry for easy, hip recipes I could use in cooking for my family and having friends over, and this book really delivered just what I was looking for.

wonderful recipes you will actually use!
i just recieved this cookbook for a gift and went straight out and purchased it for my friend!Whether or not you are cooking for your hungry family or hosting a cool little dinner party this healthy cookbook is awesome!