In the temperamental foodie world we live in, few things can withstand the trends like the martini! According to the spirited author of Make Mine a Martini, cocktail parties are enjoying a splashy resurgence in the 21st century. The perfect party host, Kay Plunkett-Hogge has provided a most entertaining and informative guide for readers seeking to host their own cocktail parties, mix their own favorite drinks, and prepare easy but delicious appetizers to impress their friends and family. Make Mine a Martini, filled with 130 recipes for fabulous cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, offers great advice for first-time hosts as well as brilliant innovations for experienced party-throwers looking to jazz up their saucy soirees. -90 step-by-step cocktail recipes with lots of American and international flair -Secrets to perfecting the classics, from flawless gimlets and Gibsons to newfangled Manhattans and Bloody Marys -40 recipes for quick and easy appetizers that are fun to make, elegant to serve, and delicious to eat -Practical guidance for setting up the home bar, essential tools and mixers, and party planning -Non-alcoholic options for the unindulging types

Make Mine a Martini: 130 Cocktails and Canapes for Fabulous Parties (Cigar & Spirits)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Plunkett-Hogge, Kay

Beverages & Wine

CompanionHouse Books

Meet the chilli. It's a fiery little fruit. From humble origins in a tucked-away corner of Latin America, it has found its way into the food of more than half the world. 
Intrepid food writer Kay Plunkett-Hogge is on its trail, following the chilli from the Americas to Europe, and along the spice routes to the Middle East, India, China and beyond. With more than 120 delicious recipes from around the world, including Thai, Indian and Mexican favourites, plus tantalising desserts with a difference, Kay showcases the chilli's extraordinary versatility, celebrates its rich and nomadic history, and discovers the secrets of its success.

Heat: Cooking With Chillies, The World's Favourite Spice

Cooking by Ingredient

Quercus Publishing

Tapas and sherry bars are everywhere: Berlin, London, LA, Paris, Munich. Now it's time to bring the trend home and serve this glorious marriage of flavors to friends. In A Sherry & A Little Plate of Tapas Kay Plunkett-Hogge tells the story of tapas and its beloved companion, sherry, and offers 80 easy-to-cook-at-home recipes. The book begins by exploring the mysteries of sherry, one of the world's oldest wines, considering the five key types, how they're made and how they're served, with tips on the best food and sherry matches and a selection of sherry cocktails. Kay then plunges into the tapas, with chapters on cold tapas - hams and olives and their like - and latillas; montaditos or 'mounted' tapas; pintxos, or 'things on sticks'; and on cooked tapas, with chapters on vegetables, eggs and dairy, seafood and meat. Kay has even created some delicious sherry-based desserts.

A Sherry & A Little Plate of Tapas

Regional & International

Mitchell Beazley

Candid, relatable, confessional, and opinionated, you won't be able to put down this intriguing tome. Adventures of A Terribly Greedy Girl includes 25 pivotal recipes that Kay has discovered along the way, including Ivy on the Shore Salad, Salty-sweet Peanut Cookies, and Thai Gravadlax. Imagine Adventures of A Terribly Greedy Girl as a book written by the illegitimate child of Nora Ephron and Laurie Colwin, dusted with a little Eastern promise. It's a celebration of a tumbling through life, of mistakes, and opportunities laid bare. Joyful, witty, and occasionally indiscreet, this is a book that stares at menopause with a gin in hand and looks back at a life entirely unplanned.

Adventures of a Terribly Greedy Girl

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Let's be honest: who doesn't want to be a little bit Italian? To glide through Rome on a Vespa like Marcello Mastroianni, wearing an impeccable suit? Or sit in St Mark's Square in Venice at dusk, nibbling cicchetti and sipping an Aperol spritz? This is la dolce vita, and this is aperitivo - Italy's take on drinks and small snacks. Aperitivo brings together 80 recipes from across Italy, and tells the stories behind the food and the drinks that shape the aperitif hour. The book opens with the aperitivi themselves - Campari and Aperol - as well as recipes for classic Italian cocktails (including the perfect Negroni) and a guide to Italian wine. Kay then introduces simple recipes for Antipasto and Pinzimonio; Tramezzini; Bruschette and Crostini; Seafood; Meat and Fowl; Vegetables, Dairy and Eggs; Bread and Baking; and Dolci. So let's cinch in our waists, pop on some cat's eye sunglasses, and make like Sophia Loren. It's time for Aperitivo.

Aperitivo: Drinks and snacks for the Dolce Vita

Humor & Entertainment

Kay Plunkett-Hogge demonstrates that entertaining need not be stressful with more than 90 deliciously simple recipes for cocktails and finger food that can easily be scaled up and made in advance. Kay draws on her own party-planning experience to help you be the perfect host, with handy tips on everything from guest list to painless clean-up. Features favourite recipes from three of Kay's previous books, including the award-winning Make Mine A Martini, as well as new creations such as Mini Cornbreads with Bacon, Chilli and Cheese, Smoked Mackerel Paté and Scandinavian Glögg.

The Art of the Party: Drinks & Nibbles for Easy Entertaining

Leon Family & Friends

Conran

Baan guides you through the fragrant world of Thai cooking--to dishes of profound and gracious subtlety--on a culinary adventure, all within the comfort of your own kitchen. Born and raised in Bangkok, Kay spoke Thai before she spoke English and has spent more than half her life in Thailand. Baan--meaning the hearth, the home, the community, the place where you come from--is a true homage to her childhood, to the delicious recipes that she was raised on, and a cuisine and country that she loves. The book features more than 120 recipes that Kay has collected from all over Thailand during her last 30 years of travel. Crucially, all of them are well within the capabilities of the competent, and curious, cook. Kay demystifies Thai food, providing clear, and concise recipes, and revealing the shortcuts, kitchen hacks, and ingredient substitutions that make delicious, and authentic Thai cooking achievable at home. Chapters include: Aharn Len Snacks; Rice and Noodles; Curries; Soups and Braises; Stir-fried and Deep-fried; Grilled, Steamed, and Baked; Yums, Laarps, and Tums; Dipping Sauces and Relishes; and Desserts.

Baan: The go-to Thai cookbook with recipes and stories from a Thai home

Baking

Pavilion Books

Good manners are simply codified kindness, and being in possession of them enhances the quality of your everyday life and that of the people around you. At home and abroad, Debora and Kay have done the fieldwork, made the mistakes, and committed enough embarrassing faux pas for two lifetimes, in the hope that you don't have to. Illustrations by Denise Dorrance Good manners aren't about cutlery, codes or cleverness - they're about kindness.&nbsp; Writers Kay Plunkett-Hogge and Debora Robertson have honed their combined social wisdom into a warm, witty, how-to guide on how to live modern life with manners - and have a lot of fun along the way.&nbsp; Debora and Kay have done the fieldwork, made the mistakes, and committed enough embarrassing faux pas for two lifetimes, in the hope that you don't have to! Their funny, frank handbook is your cheat sheet to every social situation, your right-hand man(ual) to styling out life with sass and a modicum of grace. Their tried-and-tested guidelines are divided into five main categories: At Home: family life; sharing is caring; entertaining at home; dinner; welcome to the neighbourhood At Large: work; public spaces; public transport and petiquette - pets in public At Play:&nbsp;social life; eating out, staying away; dating in the modern world @ Your Computer:&nbsp;digital decorum; phones At the End: dealing with illness and death&nbsp; Good manners are not about knowing what to wear for drinks at six, being pretentious or catching people out with some mysterious salad-fork-related regulation. In essence, good manners are simply organised kindness, and Kay and Debora will show you how being in possession of them will enhance the quality of your everyday life and that of the people around you.

Manners: A Modern Field Guide

Robertson, Debora

Computers & Technology

Pavilion

LEON. Familie & Freunde

Vincent, John

DuMont Buchverlag GmbH

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