A culinary genius who helped change the way America eats, Sheila Lukins is the cook behind the phenomenal success of The Silver Palate Cookbooks and The New Basics Cookbook, with over 5 million copies in print. Now Sheila embarks on her first solo journey, visiting 33 countries on a cooks tour of cuisines, ingredients, and tastes. The result is pure alchemy--a new kind of American cookbook that reinterprets the best of the worlds food in 450 dazzling, original recipes. In addition, there are new wines to discover, menus to experiment with, ingredients to learn, spice cabinets to raid--and travelogues to savor. Main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books and Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service; and selection of the Quality Paperback Book Club. 444,000 copies in print. From Publishers Weekly Turn the more than 500 pages of this latest cookbook by Lukins ( The Silver Palate Cookbook ), and one grows almost giddy. From Argentinian barbecue to Mexican zarzuela, she includes nearly every incarnation of the international and edible. True, many cookbook writers are well-traveled, but few set out, as Lukins did, to create a cookbook with the feel of a travel album: illustrations and sidebars along make the volume a fascinating jaunt. Through conversations with home cooks and professional chefs in 33 countries, Lukins researched the ways that people cook and eat abroad, adapting cross-cultural recipes to American kitchens with flair. The table of contents clues us in to the breezy, chatty style of its author: breakfast foods are clustered under "Room Service," while appetizers and aperitifs fall under "Wish You Were Here." No attempt is made to cluster all the recipes from a region together, which helps to give the text its considerable charms. Chicken soup, for example, is presented in a chart, tabulating 22 countries' versions of this classic. 350,000 first printing ; BOMC Home Style main selection, QPB alternate. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From the Back Cover ONE OF AMERICA'S BEST-LOVED COOK- BOOKS: THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS! Introducing global cuisine, one-world cuisine, fusion cuisine-Sheila cuisine. In a work of pure alchemy, Sheila Lukins helps set a dazzling new course for American cooking in 450 recipes that marry the best of the world's tastes, techniques, and ingredients. "In my mind, Sheila Lukins is one of the most important people in the food world. She's passionate...she's caring...she's dynamic...and she's made an enormous contribution to the way we eat today." -Paula Wolfert author of The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean "Sheila Lukins is one of the most delightful and generous people, and creative and discerning cooks. I would follow her anywhere, as well as through a recipes." -Barbara Kafka author of Party Food

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