Great dinners from Life

This book is filled with wonderful recipes, that my wife and I have used for entertaining now for 25 years. They are classic dishes and menus that will never be out of style. The recipes have been simplified somewhat--not so that they lose the authentic taste, but so they can be prepared reasonably in an American kitchen. The directions are complete enough that they can be followed by a beginning cook. The photos of each meal are so gorgeous that the first time you read through the book you'll want to call your friends and have a dinner party!I'm buying one as a Christmas gift for my daughter, who has eaten many of the recipes, and for a relative, a young lady of 25 who is just learning to cook.This is a book you'll still treasure 25 years after you buy it, as my family and I do.Dave Roberts

This is a wonderful book with fabulous recipes. It is the perfect book for entertaining. The menus are very helpful and the book is easy to use. With this book one can entertain with style and ease.

This is my favorite cookbook. This is not a how-to-cook book. The format is complete dinners for each of the four seasons. This cookbook is meant to inspire you to create great dinners. Its full-page color photos for each dinner make you salivate. There is sound advice about what can be prepared ahead, and when substitutions can be made. The recipies are so reliable that I have prepared many of them for the first time when having guests for dinner. The only significant change that I have made to the recipies is a shorter cooking time for the seafood.

When I first began working after college (early 80s), this was the cookbook everyone sought. I had quickly been established that it contained wonderful, varied, fail-safe recipes -- along with incredible menus, and explicit directions (including times) to enable even the newest cook to serve impressive, delectable dinners for the most discriminating palate.Although I have acquired well over a thousand cookbooks since that time, this remains one of my all-time favorites -- and, despite having become a vegetarian, there are still a large number of favorite recipes I still prepare from this book.I love it.