Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook, The by Julee Russo, Sarah Leah Chase, Shelia Lukins. 1985. Softcover. (F&C)

This cookbook is a description of gourmet style to graceful entertaining at home. The entire year is a celebration of good food, good friends and good times, this cookbook offers menus, suggestions, and strategies. More than 450 new recipes have been developed especially for this collection. All add to the joyfulness of the rapidly growing silver palate legend; there are glorious soups, savory entrées, vegetables, salads, cheese, soufflés, and showstopping just-right desserts. As warmly inviting as the most rousing party, the pages of this cookbook abound with winsome line illustrations, pertinent quotations, unusual ideas. The excitement begins in spring and continues through to winter, with a lavish Christmas Goose accompanied by scalloped oysters and baked kumquats. The good times are here, with the complements of The Silver Palate. 414 pages. Illustrated no photos.