"Park Avenue Potluck" is WASP cooking at its finest

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	• Park Avenue Potluck: Recipes from New York's Savviest Hostesses The Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering, Florence Fabricant Rizzoli, 2007 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Easy, approachable recipes

This book is so beautifully designed and photographed that it honestly could do double duty as a coffee table book. Having said that, at the risk of sounding snobbish, the only thing separating this cookbook from your local community junior league cookbook is that this book has much better photography and does not come spiral bound. So, buy it for its looks or for the good cause it supports, but chances are you already have most of these recipes lurking in your cookbook collection.

I purchased this (rather expensive) book expecting to find it filled with recipes for fancy dishes served by the Park Avenue elite, but instead I found it to contain very approachable, common recipes, many of which I was already familiar with. That is not to say that the recipes aren't good: they are. The lemon & dijon chicken, the Paris iced tea, and the "Aunt Janet's" beef recipe all turned out beautifully.

Bottom line: this book is filled with recipes by and for home cooks, whether your home's address happens to be on Park avenue or not.

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Wonderful recipes

This book has some fantastic recipes....have not yet tried one that wasn't a winner--I recommend it highly!

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"Park Avenue Potluck" is WASP cooking at its finest

The reason this book may appear to be "common" and "easy" by some reviewers is that many of these recipes were created by WASPs (Old Guard families). WASPs like simple, yet attractive food. If you want nouvelle cuisine of the nouveau riche look elsewhere.

Savvy and easy (the recipes not the hostesses)

My wife has cooked many of the recipes in the book and they have been incredible meals. Great thing is she says they are mostly easy recipes. Many favorites of these wonderful Park Avenue Ladies.
Ladies you will enjoy these classic recipes. Gents, what a wonderful present. Its a great looking book and you'll get to enjoy many wonderful meals when your wife trys these recipes.
All to support Sloan Ketttering, a gift of life for those battling cancer.

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Park Avenue Pot Luck

I didn't expect to be impressed, but I really did enjoy it! It's for a good cause too.

To benefit America?s leading center for the research and treatment of all types of cancer, here is a cookbook with a cause par excellence. The members of The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center are some of the most celebrated partygivers in New York City?s fundraising world. Now the ladies of the society have opened up their private recipe files to present foolproof dishes that will turn any event?whether a cocktail party for sixty or a comforting family meal?into the talk of the town. Edited by acclaimed food writer Florence Fabricant, Park Avenue Potluck is filled with such recipes as Cheddar Chutney Croustades, Baked Spinach Risotto, Cider Roasted Pork Tenderloin, and Bermuda Banana Bread Pudding. This unprecedented peek into the dining rooms of Gotham?s poshest addresses offers up advice on entertaining in true New York style. Among the boldface names contributing are Coco Kopelman, Muffie Potter Aston, Nicole Limbocker, Daisy Soros, Patsy Warner, Alexis Waller, and Katie Colgate. Humorous anecdotes, insider tidbits, and party-planning advice from these grand dames make this the season?s choicest invitation.

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