Product Description

Potato salad is the ultimate summer side dish and a picnic wouldn't be a picnic without it. And everyone has a favourite recipe - either passed down through the family or thrown together at the spur of the moment. Author Barbara Lauterbach has compiled fifty of her favourite potato salad recipes in this one-of-a-kind cookbook. Chapters are broken up into All Americans, Meat & Poultry Salads, Seafood Salads, International Salads, Some Like it Hot! Potato Salad Casseroles, and Pick of the Celebrities (from such noted chefs as Deborah Madison and Jacques Pepin. The book will include discussions of the best potato varieties to use for each type of salad as well as master recipes for cooking potatoes, making homemade mayonnaise, and toasting nuts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #853346 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 108 pages

From Amazon.com
Potato salad is almost always synonymous with casual outdoor picnics and summertime comfort food. Well, hold onto your spuds, because Barbara Lauterbach's Potato Salad: Fifty Favorite Recipes will change the way you view this standard accompaniment. Potato Salad features many variations of family recipes, from the New Year's Day Good Luck Salad, with traditionally Southern black-eyed peas, to the Rosemary Orange Potato salad, with an elegant citrus twist and enough class to serve at any formal luncheon. The book is divided into five sections, and one of the most unusual and fun chapters is dedicated to international potato salads. Here you'll find salads featuring various seafood, imported meats, and cheeses, such as the Stop and Go Italian Potato Salad and the Niçoise Potato Salad. Accompanying many of the recipes are colorful photos of the finished product to provide additional inspiration and presentation ideas. Potato Salad will satisfy your starchy comfort-food cravings while providing unique hot and cold salads that serve as main courses or side dishes any time of year. --Teresa Simanton

About the Author
Barbara Lauterbach is a teacher and spokesperson for the King Arthur Flour Company. She teaches cooking classes and hosts culinary weekends at her New Hampshire home and country inn.

Reed Davis’s photographs have appeared in Martha Stewart Living, Food & Wine, and Country Home magazines.