dinners and dining

Provides the history, culture, and travel of food around the world, including a menu of delicacies and unexpected dishes.

Although Zachary's parents ask him to help, he does not like helping his family at dinnertime to do such things as set the table, peel potatoes, or wash the dishes, but when he visits the homes of friends for a week, he has a change of heart.

A collection of main dish recipes using chicken. Provides step by step directions and photographs for dishes such as spinach chicken quiche, chicken quesadilla, chicken kabobs, and more.

A collection of 150 recipes for simple dishes that can be prepared in thirty minutes or less.

"Focusing on the manners, customs, and "moeurs" of the dining scene, the author takes the reader from the opulence of a dinner at the Rothschilds through every social stratum down to the laborer eating on the streets. He surveys the restaurants of the previous generation and his own--from the most elegant to the lowest dive--along with the eating habits of the bourgeoisie, the importance and variety of banquets, the institutional meal, and even the plight of "people who do not dine"--Provided by publisher.

Presents 340 Mexican recipes for soups, sauces, eggs, fish, poultry, meats, vegetables, salads, desserts, and drinks, and includes an introduction on ingredients and cooking techniques.

Introduces one hundred words as children from around the world pass different foods.

"The blue table becomes more than just a blue table, as plans are made, families gather, and food is served, and gratitude is felt"--OCLC.

Maya's unique table manners turn the palace upside down when she accepts an invitation to dine with the queen.

Presents menus and recipes for each day of the year, from July through December, based on meals from various historical occasions or significant events, with the name, date, and location of each.