Great Bar Food at Home

Nominated for a 2008 James Beard Foundation Book Award
in the "Entertaining" Category

Classic and Contemporary Accompaniments
for Cocktails, Wine, and Beer

Whether unwinding after work or celebrating the weekend, a delectable snack is the perfect complement to a favorite cocktail. Good food and good drink equal a great experience, especially when enjoyed in the comfort of one's own home. Great Bar Food At Home by Kate Heyhoe is filled with delicious recipes for at-home bites that will transform the act of drinking a glass of wine, pint of beer, or classic cocktail into a truly gratifying sensory event.

Robust and refined in flavor, the richly photographed recipes are also wonderfully stress-free and simple to serve. You can create stylish snacks, spiced with global flair, from Heyhoe's easy-to-follow instructions such as Salmon Sliders with Lime-Sesame Mayonnaise, Eggplant Pizzettes, or Smoky Chipotle Chili. Heyhoe also explains how to pair food with cocktails, wine, and beer, so you can enjoy a perfect combination of flavors. Entertaining at home has never been simpler!

As an added bonus, Great Bar Food At Home is peppered with evocative lore, social tidbits and tales of Hollywood in its heyday. Heyhoe's nostalgia for classic eras, when legends like Frank Sinatra ended the day with a nightcap and snack at PJ Clarke's, permeates the pages of this beautiful book. The history of Studio 54 and wit of Dorothy Parker can be found among the selection of tasty recipes. This inspiring collection will help hosts create a warm, friendly bar environment at home for all their guests to enjoy.

"...the book offers knowledgeable tidbits on how to make 50 or so small bites, the kind that go down nicely with, say, a double martini or a Singapore Sling...like any gourmet, she jet-sets across many an international boundary, visiting such diverse cuisines as Japanese (Rumaki with Soba Noodles) and North African (Spicy Tunisian Sunset Dip)." —Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Kate Heyhoe is the co-founder and editor of the Global Gourmet, launched in 1994 as the first food e-zine. Heyhoe has written seven books, including: Macho Nachos, Cooking with Kids For Dummies, A Chicken in Every Pot, and Harvesting the Dream: The Rags-to-Riches Tale of the Sutter Home Winery and the recently-published Stubb's Bar-B-Q Cookbook. She has written for Better Homes & Gardens, Saveur, Chile Pepper, Cooking Pleasures, and other magazines, and has appeared in national TV satellite tours as well as on "The Early Show" (CBS), CNN, PBS, and Food Network. She lives in the Hill Country near Austin, Texas

• Great Bar Food at Home
• by Kate Heyhoe
• John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• $17.95, 128 pages
• ISBN-10: # 0471781835
• ISBN-13: 978-0471781837
• Information provided by the publisher.

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GBF Gift
and Party Ideas

Ideal travel
and gift size:

• Carry it on-board, or mail—about 8-inches square

Craft a gift basket:

• Add martini glasses and olives, or wine and cheese

Give to your hosts:

• With or without wine, for dinners, parties & holidays

For a first date
at home:

• Mix the drinks and dine in

Cheers to Newlyweds:

• Ease into married life, enjoy bar food in your new home

Dress for cocktails:

• Throw a bash with easy bites

Oscar Parties:

• Eat like movie stars with caviar, crab cakes, and more

Cocktail Onion'd
Deviled Eggs, page 30