The Loaves and Fishes Party Cookbook

by Anna Pump and Sybille Pump

Book Overview

A season-by-season menu guide to delicious entertaining from the talented and creative owners of the Loaves and Fishes Gourmet Shop in Sagaponack, NY. Illustrated.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060162228
• ISBN13: 9780060162221
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Great Addition to My Cookbook Collection

I love Anna Pump and her simple, elegant food. There are no exotic, hard to find (harder to finish) ingredients here. The recipes in this book will inspire you to head into the kitchen and perhaps even to host a party just to show off a new favorite recipe. This is a beautiful hardcover cookbook with clear recipe layouts and easy to follow instructions. But, like her earlier The Loaves and Fishes Cookbook, it does not have any pictures. I am not a fan of "party" cookbooks-- instead of organizing the recipes by meat, fish, dessert, etc., this cookbook is organized by season (The Glories of Spring, The Best of Summer, Autumn's Harvest, and The Glow of Winter) and from there in to different party menus (Spring Dinner for Twelve, Fourth of July Celebration for Sixteen, Lunch on a Cold Fall Day for Eight, Holiday Buffet for Thirty, etc.). Her Easter Dinner Menu calls for Red Pepper Soup with Garlic Croutons, Broiled Lamb Chops with Mint Hollandaise, Asparagus Roasted in Olive Oil, Rosti, Lemon Mousse, and Chocolate Madeleines. I would highly recommend this cookbook.

Pumped!

Anna and Sybille Pump have created an exceptional cookbook. Recipes are as simple as they can be still delivering extraordinary results. These recipes are innovative, unfussy, and tested in a commercial kitchen that has no time to waste. Dishes present very well and the flavors in each carefully crafted recipe are clear, sufficiently complex without being at all muddled. This is one of my very favorite cookbooks, reflecting as it does skills well honed.

Best Cookbook I own

I received this as a gift years ago when I was learning to cook. The recipes are not too difficult, and most are simply excellent. The author is also very good at giving you fairly accurate preparation times, so you have a good idea of what you are in for. The only caveat: this book is NOT for someone on a low-cholesterol diet. The recipes are full of butter and cream, which is probably why they are so good. Perhaps my only critique is that you may want to reduce salt on some of the recipes. But that is a minor quibble. This is a fabulous book that runs the gamut from salads to soups, roasts to an excellent carrot cake and amazing chocolate rum cake.

Please bring it back!

It's an excellent creative cookbook. I do not own one, but would love to. My sister in law has made some wonderful dishes from this book.