Douglas grew up in a big family where his mother and grandmother served big dinners every night of the week. Today, he's one of the country's hottest chefs, known not only for making Pacific Northwest cuisine and wine a centerpiece of American dining but also for hosting sensational big dinner parties at home. With his wife, Jackie Cross, Douglas takes an equally innovative approach to cookbooks, sharing menus and memories in an out-of-this-world collection.
Drawn from special meals with family members, friends, vintners, and fellow restaurant owners, Tom's Big Dinners brings together thirteen of his favorite feasts, with no-nonsense recipes that make it easy to cook like a restaurant chef without ever leaving home. The menus range in style from the refined Wine Cellar Dinner, with recipes for Goat Cheese Fondue, Vine-Roasted Squab with Syrah Jam, and Chocolate Crêpes, to the relaxing Screen Door Barbecue, featuring Pit-Roasted Pork Spareribs, Down-Home Collard Greens, and Hard Watermelon Lemonade, and the festive Pop Pop's Winter Solstice, starting with Pop Pop's Perfect Martini and Caramelized Fennel Tart, followed by Creamy Seafood Chowder and Parsley Scones.
The Pike Place Market Menu and Puget Sound Crab Feed showcase classic Seattle-style dishes, while Tom's extravagant Chinese Feast incorporates the Asian influence prevalent in Pacific Rim cooking.
In their energetic and warmly inviting book, Tom and Jackie take the hassle out of first-rate entertaining. Suggestions for do-ahead preparation appear in each chapter, along with wine pairings for each course.
A celebration in itself, Tom's Big Dinners brings big-time fun, flavor, and flair to your own dinners.

Tom's Big Dinners: Big-Time Home Cooking for Family and Friends

Douglas, Tom

Reference

William Morrow Cookbooks

Where do you get the best crab cakes? Ask one hundred different people and you'll likely get one hundred different answers. Some swear by classic Chesapeake Bay crab cakes, and some by spicy Creole crab cakes, while others maintain that Pacific Northwest crab cakes can't be beat. In I Love Crab Cakes!, award-winning chef and cookbook author Tom Douglas brings the best of East, West, and Gulf coasts to the table and proves that the most delicious crab cakes of all come straight from your home kitchen.
Tom thoroughly examines every thorny, crab cake–related issue. Bread crumbs, cracker crumbs, panko, or no crumbs at all? What kind of crabmeat: Dungeness, king, or Peeky Toe? Are the best crab cakes pan-fried, deep-fried, or not even cooked?
Tom offers up dozens of his famous crab cake recipes, including classic crab cakes from East and West, North and South, plus newer innovations such as Wild Ginger Crab Cakes, Pesto Risotto Crab Cakes, and Crab Louie Cheesecakes. There are crab cake sandwiches, breakfast crab cakes, and crab cake sauces and salsas.

I Love Crab Cakes! 50 Recipes for an American Classic

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Lance, Shelley

Desserts

New York Times Bestseller
When it comes to delectable, freshly baked cakes, pies, cookies, and muffins, nobody beats the world famous Dahlia Bakery of Seattle, Washington. Owner, Iron Chef, and James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Tom Douglas offers up the best loved recipes from this incomparable bread and pastries mecca in The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook—featuring everything from breakfast to cookies and cake to soups and jams and more—demonstrating why the West Coast wonder has long been a favorite of foodies and celebrities, like Food Network’s Giada De Laurentiis and Serious Eats founder Ed Levine.

The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook: Sweetness in Seattle

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

A Theory of Groupwork Practice is based on the results of the search for the fundamental similarities in the practice of all groupworkers in whatever profession or setting they may operate. The theoretical concepts used by groupworkers may be widely variant, but what workers actually do when in interaction with the groups they create or adapt shows remarkable similarities which are deeper and more influential than the concepts in promoting or preventing successful group outcomes. This book presents the foundations of a coherent theory of group work practice based on these similarities.

A Theory of Groupwork Practice

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Red Globe Press

In this classic introduction to group work, Tom Douglas argues that basic group processes also operate in 'natural' groups which we more commonly see as spontaneous gatherings.

Groups: Understanding People Gathered Together

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

A Handbook of Common Groupwork Problems

"A Handbook of Common Groupwork Problems" is based on the most common problems the author has been consulted about during the last 20 years. The emphasis in the handbook is placed on devising strategies and monitoring their effects particularly for the large number of groupworkers who have no access to supervision or consultation. The strategies applied are outlined in five broad sections: the members of a group; the group as a system; the conditions which affect a group; the performance of leadership roles; and the supervision, training and development of groupworkers. There is also practical advice on how to use known resources and develop potential ones within the group. The author has worked with, taught, and acted as a consultant for groups and groupworkers in different areas of practice for 37 years. In this handbook he has distilled this experience into a practical self-help programme for groupworkers. The book is intended to be of use as a reference source and as a training guide in the fields of psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and in groupwork in general.

Politics & Government

Tavistock Books

"A Handbook of Common Groupwork Problems" is based on the most common problems the author has been consulted about during the last 20 years. The emphasis in the handbook is placed on devising strategies and monitoring their effects particularly for the large number of groupworkers who have no access to supervision or consultation. The strategies applied are outlined in five broad sections: the members of a group; the group as a system; the conditions which affect a group; the performance of leadership roles; and the supervision, training and development of groupworkers. There is also practical advice on how to use known resources and develop potential ones within the group. The author has worked with, taught, and acted as a consultant for groups and groupworkers in different areas of practice for 37 years. In this handbook he has distilled this wide-ranging experience into a systematic and essentially practical self-help programme for groupworkers. The book is intended to be of use as a reference source and as a training guide in the fields of psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and in groupwork in general.

Groupwork Practice

Scapegoats are a universal phenomenon, appearing in all societies at all times in groups large and small, in public and private organizations. Hardly a week passes without some media reference to someone or something being made a scapegoat. Tom Douglas examines the process of scapegoating from the perspectives of victims and perpetrators, tracing its development from earliest times as rite of atonement to the modern forms of the avoidance of blame and the victimisation of innocents. The differences and similarities between the ancient and modern forms are examined to reveal that despite the modern logical explanations of behaviour, the mystical element in the form of superstition is still evident. Directly responding to the Diploma in Social Work's call for texts on anti-discriminatory practice Scapegoats should become essential reading for all social workers in training and practice. Will also be a invaluable resource for all professionals engaging in groupwork and group workers in training.

Scapegoats: Transferring Blame

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Routledge

Scapegoats are a universal phenomenon, appearing in all societies at all times in groups large and small, in public and private organizations. Hardly a week passes without some media reference to someone or something being made a scapegoat. Tom Douglas examines the process of scapegoating from the perspectives of victims and perpetrators, tracing its development from earliest times as rite of atonement to the modern forms of the avoidance of blame and the victimisation of innocents. The differences and similarities between the ancient and modern forms are examined to reveal that despite the modern logical explanations of behaviour, the mystical element in the form of superstition is still evident.  Directly responding to the Diploma in Social Work's call for texts on anti-discriminatory practice Scapegoats should become essential reading for all social workers in training and practice. Will also be a invaluable resource for all professionals engaging in groupwork and group workers in training.

Scapegoats (Economics; 2)

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Tom's Big Dinners: Big-Time Home Cooking for Family and Friends

I Love Crab Cakes! 50 Recipes for an American Classic

The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook: Sweetness in Seattle

A Theory of Groupwork Practice

Groups: Understanding People Gathered Together

A Handbook of Common Groupwork Problems

A Handbook of Common Groupwork Problems

Groupwork Practice

Scapegoats: Transferring Blame

Scapegoats (Economics; 2)