Cooking
Club
Six Friends Show You How to Bake, Broil, and
Bond
By Katherine Fausset, Sharon Cohen Fredman, Rebecca
Sample Gerstung, Cynthia Harris, Lucia Quartararo
and Lisa Singer (Villard)
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"Cooking
in New York City is like driving—no
one in their right mind does it. In this city, dinner
at home requires only two ingredients: a phone and
a drawer full of take-out menus. Mongolian at midnight?
Not a problem. Cooking, on the other hand, involves
trawling for elfin-sized groceries at your corner
deli, boxing out an angry executive to nab the last
bottle of soy sauce, and then lugging a shopping bag
up four flights of stairs in a brownstone walk-up
to an apartment that you can't afford anyway."
So begins the tale of the Cooking Club, and if you
wonder then just how these six young friends who work
in publishing actually got it together to create menu
after menu of dazzling dishes—first
for their regular meetings, and now for this delightful
book—grab
a copy and read along.
It's like HBO's smash "Sex and the City"
for the cooking set. (Just try their Aphrodisiac Salad,
Seduce-Me Steak, Baked Pesto Oysters on the Half Shell
and Wild Ginger Rice that are part of their Sexy
Menu chapter.)
But the group has more than hanky-panky on their minds.
They also offer informed chapters on spa cuisine,
grilling, fast food, brunch, entertaining and a number
of ethnic foods, as well as heart-to-hearts on starting
your own cooking club and bonding with your fellow
members.
In the end, though, it's all about them (shown in
fetching color pics throughout)—as
well it should be: This is one intelligent, witty—and
photogenic—crowd.
These women may be in publishing now, but it seems
like their own TV cooking series/personal confessional
reality show can't be far behind.
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