BEAT THIS! COOKBOOK Absolutely Unbeatable Knock-'em-Dead Recipes for the Very Best Dishes By Ann Hodgman "The funniest, most engaging book about food I've ever come across."-Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair "The book I have probably recommended more often than any other . . . More than a cookbook, it is a humor book and a self-help book and a security blanket and a kind of bible."-Elizabeth Berg, NPR's All Things Considered In BEAT THIS! COOKBOOK, Ann Hodgman issues a challenge no self-respecting cook can resist. A popular food writer for Gourmet, the New Yorker, Food & Wine, and many other magazines, Hodgman claims to have found the absolute best recipes for more than 100 favorite dishes-and she defies anyone to prove her wrong. Fried Chicken. Macaroni and Cheese. Baking Powder Biscuits. Coleslaw. Strawberry Shortcake. White Chocolate-Raspberry Tart. Unlike other peoples' recipes, which Hodgman says are generally ordinary in the extreme, hers are the best of their type-guaranteed to make people take one bite, "stagger with joy and beg you for the recipe." Hodgman's audacious claim is much more than braggadocio. First published in 1993, the book became a cult classic. In fact, only one person could realistically hope to beat the recipes in Beat This!: Hodgman herself. And now, in BEAT THIS! COOKBOOK: Absolutely Unbeatable Knock-'em-Dead Recipes for the Very Best Dishes (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March), she has added more than 50 new-and even more unbeatable-recipes and ...
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