So I would love to do some more with Chickenfoot, I would love to write another book, a lifestyle-cookbook-party, how to get together with people in your backyard and in the kitchen and my eclectic drinks and stuff that I make.
Her second book, "The I Love Trader Joe's Party Cookbook," will be released Nov. 1.
When Batty first approached Hot Knives to do the book, he signed them to a two-book contract, with the second, a gritty party cookbook called "Spring Blaze," due out next year.
Meanwhile, in another universe, Donenfeld's party cookbook is all sass and class, with a recommended "wardrobe change" written into each recipe signaling when it would be a good time to swap out those sauce-stained sweats for pretty party duds.
On Sunday night, 200 guests jammed into the home of Joan Nathan, a cookbook author, for a party in honor of the cool-again Alice Waters and other visiting celebrity chefs.
After the success of The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook and Barefoot Contessa Parties!, Garten was approached by Food Network with an offer to host her own television cooking show.
Filled with lush photographs of dishes, vineyards and sun-drenched landscapes, Binn' cookbook, like any good dinner party, starts with light appetizers, in a chapter called "Magic-Hour Grazing," and then moves through dishes based on main ingredient, such as "From the Ranch," and "From Garden and Orchard".
If I'm having a dinner party, I search through cookbooks and clippings to find the most novel appetizer or dessert.
This could be the sleeper cookbook of the year, as it steers party food in the mode that's increasingly sought-after and appreciated.
This fun twist on tiramisu, from one of my all-time favorite cookbooks, Nigella Express by Nigella Lawson, is a dinner party regular at my house.
Such was the Herculean task before Gwyneth Paltrow, the actress and singer turned can-do celebrity chef, who hosted an intimate dinner party Monday night to celebrate her first cookbook, "My Father's Daughter," which comes out this week.
