Elegant Entrees: A Collection of Recipes with International Flair

If you're looking for something wonderful and easy to prepare - this is the cook book for you! It also makes a great gift. I just bought seven of them to give as gifts! Perfect for the upcoming holidays! Betty Evans reminds one of M. K. Fisher - wonderful comments throughout the book.

I'm unabashedly crazy about Betty Evans' cookbooks. They're easy to use, they make it easy to produce excellent meals with a minimum of fuss, and moreover, they make great gifts. We all know people who truly need a cookbook, but it can be a bit unsubtle to just thrust one upon them. Evans' books, though (and this is third in a series, with "Elegant Appetizers" and "Taste of America"), are such charming little volumes, so pretty, so entertainingly written and unpretentious, that nobody is ever other than delighted to receive one. Of course I use them, too; I'm an uncertain enough cook that I am always grateful for the straightforward direction she provides. Hey, all I ask is to be able to serve good food, simply prepared, and yet impress the hell out of everyone; is that so much? Fortunately for me, Evans' books deliver just that.